Line #19 Recap/TheSopranosS5E12LongTermParking


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TroubleEntendre "I'll see you up there."]]'']]
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4	->''"That's the guy, Adriana. My uncle Tony. The guy I'm going to hell for."''
5	-->-- '''Christopher Moltisanti'''
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7	A very angry Phil Leotardo has a {{Flashback}} of Tony B murdering his brother, Bill, and very nearly killing Phil as well. He and Johnny Sack have a sit-down with the Jersey family. Tony S denies ever sanctioning a hit on Billy Leotardo and maintains that Tony B is nowhere to be found. The sit-down breaks down when Phil leaves enraged, and Johnny Sack insists that the whole Jersey family will pay if Tony B is not delivered to him.
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9	Tony has Silvio use his connections at the phone company to plant traces on his phone. When Tony B calls him, Tony S is able to have the call traced to a bar in upstate New York. He then calls Uncle Pat, who confirms that the need for environmental permits has delayed developments at the farm. This allows Tony S to deduce that Tony B has in all likelihood gone into hiding at Uncle Pat's farm.
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11	Little Carmine has decided that enough bloodshed has resulted from the civil war overtaking the New York family, and decides to cede the position of boss to Johnny Sack. Word of Johnny's ascension comes back to Tony S, and the two bosses arrange another meeting in a vacant lot near the Manhattan Bridge. Tony S pleads with Johnny, telling him that he is willing to give up his cousin's location, if Johnny can in return promise that he will at least receive a quick death. Johnny refuses, insisting that Phil will get the opportunity to give Tony B a drawn out and painful death. Tony S leaves after telling Johnny to go fuck himself.
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13	Tony S manages to reconcile with Carmela. He agrees to finance a spec house for Carmela (to be built by Hugh), and says that his "midlife crisis will no longer intrude anymore" into their marriage, promising to be more discreet with his affairs so that they won't come to the actual notice of Carmela. He also breaks up with the still badly burnt Valentina, who doesn't take it well.
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15	Chris screws up a cigarette bootlegging operation by not making sure that their Latino partners properly applied tax stamps to them. That means ATF agents are now investigating the operation. Tony S forces Chris to share half the operation, and half its earnings, with Paulie. Chris only becomes angrier as a result and vents his frustrations at Adriana. Chris also feels that Tony S is giving Tony B preferential treatment, even though the latter has drawn the Jersey family into the crosshairs of the New York family by trying to murder the Leotardo brothers (but only killing Billy).
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17	The FBI agents, Sanseverino, Cubitoso, and Harris pinch Adriana even harder upon seeing surveillance footage from the Crazy Horse of her trying to conceal items, and being able to tie them to the murder of Gilbert Nieves. Nieves had previously tried to shake down Matush in Adriana's office over being sold fake drugs, but Matush and his friend Kamal brutally stab him to death instead. The agents demands that she agrees to wear a wire with Chris and/or Tony S present, or they will have her charged as an accessory-after-the-fact to the murder of Nieves. In desperation, Adriana tells them that Chris has been upset with Tony lately, and she persuades them that she can make him turn witness on the mob. They let her go, with a deadline for bringing him in.
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19	Adriana sits down to talk with an already surly Chris and eventually works up the courage to tell him that she has been an informant for the FBI for the past couple of years. Chris explodes in white-hot rage over the news and beats Adriana, before nearly strangling her to death in his anger, only stopping because he breaks down crying. As he sits distraught and paralyzed with fear over how his friends and Tony will react, Adriana tries to convince him that if he agrees to inform on the mob, the FBI will send them both into Witness Protection and the two can start a new life together. Chris struggles with whether to join Witness Protection and leaves the apartment to take a moment to think it over. He sees a family with young children at the gas station, which serves as a painful reminder that Adriana is unlikely to ever be able to bear a child. It becomes a tipping point for the decision he makes.
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21	Tony S calls up Adriana and tells her that Chris just attempted suicide by downing pills, but he survived and has been taken to the hospital. He tells her that Silvio is on his way to pick her up with the stated intention of driving her to the hospital to see Chris.
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23	A distraught Adriana rides with Silvio, who informs her that Chris is going to be okay, as he is a strong kid. As he does so, he -- instead of taking her to the hospital -- drives her out to a remote location in the woods. Adriana, realizing far too late what is going to happen, starts panicking and crying, as she pleads for her life to an unsympathetic Silvio who forcibly drags her out of his car. A crying Adriana desperately attempts to crawl away on all fours, as Silvio raises his gun and repeatedly squeezes the trigger.
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25	Chris goes to great lengths to hide Adriana's belongings, including abandoning her car in a remote corner of the long-term parking section of the Newark Liberty International Airport. Tony S later finds him in the back of the Bada Bing, obviously high. Chris admits to snorting heroin because he cannot take the pain of losing Adriana, telling Tony he loved her. Tony loses his composure and beats Chris, telling him that he is not the only one with pain.
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27	Sanseverino meets with Cubitoso and Harris about Adriana's sudden disappearance; she insists Adriana could've just fled anywhere; Cubitoso is not convinced. She storms out of the office. Cubitoso tells Harris that since Matush is sending money home to Pakistan, he should pull the counter-terrorism card and take the case from the local police. Meanwhile, Tony S and Carmela go to survey the land on which Carmela plans to build her spec house, which coincidentally looks similar to the area in which Adriana was killed. Tony, lost in thought, sits on a tree stump, with Carmela standing at his side.
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29	!!Tropes:
30	* AintTooProudToBeg: Adriana desperately pleads with Silvio not to kill her, but the inevitable happens.
31	* AndYourLittleDogToo: Johnny Sack delivers an ultimatum to Tony S of either delivering Tony B to him, or having the whole Jersey crime family wiped out.
32	* AnyoneCanDie: Adriana, one of the mainstay characters in the show up until this point, meets her end in this episode. And given that Adriana was such an integral part of Chris' life, whom you could call the {{Deuteragonist}}, and was around for much longer, you could argue that her death was an even bigger deal than [[Recap/TheSopranosS2E13Funhouse Big Pussy's]].
33	* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Tony admits to being an adulterer.
34	* BadBoss: Tony is a total {{Jerkass}} to Chris for being late, and having even a [[RecoveredAddict single cocktail]]. He also tears a strip off of Chris for not making sure their Latino partners applied a tax stamp to their [[BlackMarket cigarettes]]. He also forces Chris to share the operation and its earnings with Paulie, 50/50. He then gives Chris a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for [[OffTheWagon relapsing]] into heroin use following Adriana's death.
35	* BaitTheDog: Tony S, especially when his PetTheDog moment with Adriana was moments earlier in this same episode, comes across as genuinely concerned for both Chris and Adriana when he makes the phone call. But it was all an act to lure Adriana into a death trap.
36	* BlackMarket: The Jersey family sells cigarettes to their Latino partners, but an issue comes up when the partners don't apply the tax stamps to the cartons.
37	* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Carmela and Tony get back together, with the understanding that Tony will be more discreet with his adultery.
38	* BrosBeforeHoes: Adrianna reveals to Christopher that she is an informant for the FBI, and pleads to go into Witness Protection with her. At first, Chris seems tempted but then chooses to reveal this to Tony and even helps cover up her murder.
39	* BurialAtSea: Matush and Kamal attempt to [[DisposingOfABody get rid of Nieves' body]] by tossing it in the ocean. But they show their lack of experience and knowledge in comparison to the Jersey mobsters, who in similar situations have taken the body much further out to sea, wrapped it in bags, and weighed it down with heavy objects inside the bags to make sure the body is never found. Nieves' body predictably washes up on the shore, leading to their discovery by Sea Scouts, and a [[FromBadToWorse whole new set of problems]] for Adriana.
40	* ButtMonkey: Chris gets chewed out regularly by [[BadBoss Tony]], and he's still angry about when [[Recap/TheSopranosS5E10ColdCuts both Tonys picked on him at Uncle Pat's farm]].
41	* ButterflyOfDoom: Chris is [[HeelFaceTurn seriously thinking]] of joining Adriana in Witness Protection, fantazising about writing a book. But then [[LawOfInverseFertility he catches sight of a father with his young children at a gas station]]. It's an open question of whether Chris would have actually joined Adriana were it not for that little twist.
42	* CallBack: [[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Johnny Sack]] gives a DisapprovingLook when he notices [[SmallNameBigEgo Chris]] walking in for the sit-down, meaning Chris has to remain standing to the side and can't seat himself at the table.
43	* CelebrityParadox: Chris quoting "Born to Run" is made more apropos by the presence of Steven Van Zandt, longtime guitarist in Springsteen's E Street Band. Van Zandt also sings backing vocals on the "Born To Run" track.
44	* CharacterDevelopment: Little Carmine, after seeing enough bodies pile up in the EnemyCivilWar, has a HeelFaceTurn and the realization that AmbitionIsEvil. From this point onwards, he [[TookALevelInKindness Takes a Level in Kindness]] and dedicates his energies to minimizing casualties in future Mafia struggles.
45	* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Adriana needs one after getting grilled by the FBI. The request itself becomes a GilliganCut to Tony having a Cigar of Anxiety while [[{{Flashback}} remembering happier times]] with [[SpannerInTheWorks Tony B]] and [[SadisticChoice struggling with what to do about his own cousin]].
46	* ClusterFBomb: Phil unleashes one after the sit down only serves to [[UnstoppableRage anger]] him.
47	* CombatPragmatist: Kamal gives Gilbert Nieves a TapOnTheHead from behind with a hard ashtray. He and Matush each hold one of Gilbert's arms. Kamal then bites on the hand that's holding the knife, giving Matush the opportunity to shank him.
48	* ContinuityNod: Adriana desperately trying to crawl away from Silvio before getting shot to death is pretty much a mirror image of [[Recap/TheSopranosS5E4AllHappyFamilies Lorraine trying to crawl away from Billy before suffering the same fate]].
49	* CountryMatters: Silvio calls Adriana one just before he [[KilledOffscreen kills her]].
50	* DaydreamSurprise: We see Adrianna driving her Ford Thunderbird out of New Jersey with her suitcase, but then a few seconds later we realize that she was daydreaming, and is back in Silvio's car on the way to her execution.
51	* DestroyTheEvidence:
52	** Adriana attempts to hide evidence of Nieves' murder. But between her being caught on tape putting items in the dumpster, and Nieves' body washing ashore, the FBI agents have her solid for obstructing an investigation. That allows them to tighten the MortonsFork on her even further, although that leads to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero unintended consequences]].
53	** Chris gathers Adriana's belongings, after her murder, into her suitcase. He then tosses the suitcase at a spot with plenty of other suitcases and other discarded items where it will be indistinguishable.
54	** He then takes Adriana's car and pays to leave it in the long-term parking lot of the airport. By the time the ticket expires and the car gets towed, the security footage will have long since been deleted and the car itself won't come anywhere near the FBI's radar.
55	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Tony S. telling Johnny Sack, the newly crowned head of the immensely New York mob to "go fuck himself", can be construed as this, as [[TheConsigliere Silvio]] points out in the next episode.
56	* DistractedByTheLuxury:
57	** Tony S isn't taking his reconciliation with Carmela for granted. The first thing he does upon coming home is gift her with an expensive luxury scarf.
58	** But then Carmela wants Tony S to invest $600,000 in a new lot and house. The look on Tony's face betrays the realization he's hardly done with shelling out to please Carmela.
59	* DomesticAbuse: Chris really lays into Adriana once she reveals that she's been TheMole. He starts with a closed fist punch to the face and then very nearly strangles her to death.
60	* DoubleMeaningTitle:
61	** Christopher parks Adriana's car in the "Long Term Parking" section at the airport.
62	** "Long term parking" could refer to a long-term decision, or putting oneself in a lasting or binding situation: Adriana suggesting she and Christopher join the Witness Protection Program; Carmela and Tony moving back in together; Tony B.'s attempts to disappear; and Christopher's and Tony's guilt over the death of Adriana.
63	** Death can be viewed as a "long term parking" of the human body.
64	** The title could refer to the state of Christopher's soul, which could be forever damned for his betrayal of Adriana
65	** When Adriana is picked up by the FBI outside the pharmacy, she mentions that her car is still in the parking lot.
66	* DoubleSpeak: Jimmy Petrille informs Tony S that Little Carmine has [[KnowWhenToFoldEm surrendered]] the Boss position to Johnny Speak through a tennis match analogy.
67	* DramaticIrony: Chris still assumes Adriana has it easy and is blithely unaware [[MortonsFork of the sources of Adriana's stress]], at least to start the episode...
68	* DrowningMySorrows: Chris [[OffTheWagon goes back]] to heroin use after Adriana's murder.
69	* DrunkWithPower: Tony S and the other Jersey mobsters are concerned that Johnny Sack has long stopped being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, and that becoming the Boss will now go to his head.
70	* EtTuBrute:
71	** Tony S still feels very betrayed by Tony B.
72	** Chris in turn feels betrayed by Adriana after learning that she's been TheMole.
73	** Silvio is clearly angry at Adriana for becoming TheMole.
74	* FacialHorror: Valentina's face looks even worse than it did the [[Recap/TheSopranosS5E11TheTestDream previous episode]] after getting badly burnt. In fact, it makes her look rather TwoFaced.
75	* {{Flashback}}:
76	** Phil has one of Tony B's RoaringRampageOfRevenge where he shot Billy, but Phil [[PlotArmor survived]]. Billy [[DiedInYourArmsTonight died in Phil's arms]].
77	** We see Matush's and Kamal's murder of Gilbert Nieves after the fact when Adriana explains what happened to the FBI agents.
78	** Tony S broods on happier times with [[SpannerInTheWorks Tony B]], including when they were teenagers with EightiesHair, while [[SadisticChoice struggling with what to do about his own cousin]].
79	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
80	** Carmela expresses an interest in a small lot. It ends up becoming [[ChekhovsGift conveniently useful]] for Tony.
81	** Matush is "very religious" and "prays all the time". He also sends money to his brother, who [[MiddleEasternTerrorists "runs a prep school for young boys."]]
82	** And the FBI takes over the Nieves murder investigation from the local police as part of ''UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror''.
83	** Tony S, after speaking to Tony B, calls up Uncle Pat. Uncle Pat confirms that nothing can be done with his farm because of the need for environmental permits. [[UnsafeHaven Sounds like the perfect place to go into hiding, right?]]
84	* FromBadToWorse: Adriana was already dealing with a lot of stress as it was. Matush's and Kamal's murder of Gilbert Nieves creates a whole new set of problems for her. And her attempt to TakeAThirdOption ends up dooming her ...
85	* TheGrovel: What the sit down between the Jersey and New York families amounts to. Tony S tries to do his utmost to apologize on behalf of the Jersey family, and distance the family from [[SpannerInTheWorks Tony B's]] RoaringRampageOfRevenge. It doesn't work, considering that this is Johnny Sack and Phil we're talking about ...
86	* HeelFaceTurn: Little Carmine has one after realizing that his efforts to take over the family have resulted in numerous deaths.
87	* HopeSpot: Christopher nearly chokes Adriana to death after finding out her involvement with the FBI, but manages to stop himself, making it seem like she might survive the episode after all... until he betrays her, and she doesn't.
88	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The FBI agents bank on Chris flipping and joining WitnessProtection based on an overestimation of [[TheResenter restentments]] against Tony S and other incentives to leave the mob life, and a severe underestimation of UndyingLoyalty to [[MyMasterRightOrWrong Tony S]].
89	* {{Hypocrite}}: Tony is willing to admit he's an adulterer, but is just as quick to point out to Carmela that she cheated with Furio in every possible way short of [[UnresolvedSexualTension actually sleeping with him]].
90	* IAmWhatIAm: Tony throws the trope at Carmela word for word, admitting that he can never be completely faithful even were they to get back together.
91	* ILied: Tony S comes clean to Tony B about the [[UnluckilyLucky real reason]] he didn't show up for the bungled heist that saw [[ICouldaBeenAContender Tony B go away to prison for 17 years]]. It doesn't seem to particularly matter to Tony B.
92	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Matush stabs Gilbert Nieves several times once he manages to get hold of the knife.
93	* InternalReveal: After episodes of buildup, the Jersey crew finally discovers Adriana's [[TheMole role as an FBI informant.]]
94	* IronicEcho combined with CallBack: Remember when Silvio was trying to comfort Adriana [[Recap/TheSopranosS2E9FromWhereToEternity after Chris got shot]]? He used words like "Chrissy's a tough kid" and "He'll pull through". He uses those same words, practically word for word, while he's driving Adriana. The previous time [[PetTheDog he really was trying to comfort Adriana]]. This time he's [[LuredIntoATrap keeping her off her guard until he can kill her in a remote location]].
95	* JerkassHasAPoint: While Christopher himself has caught a lot of breaks for being Tony S's nephew during the series, he has a right to be angry about Tony S giving preferential treatment to Tony B even after the latter's actions have brought the wrath of the entire Lupertazzi family upon the [=DiMeo=] crew, with Christopher himself specifically being singled out as their top RevengeByProxy target.
96	* KickTheDog:
97	** Chris beats and chokes Adriana after she reveals she's been talking to the FBI and the murder at the Crazy Horse.
98	** Silvio kills Adriana as she begs for her life.
99	** Tony beats Chris for using drugs.
100	* KilledOffscreen: We see Silvio fire his gun at Adriana, but Adriana herself is offscreen as she's trying to crawl away.
101	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Little Carmine decides to give up the position of Boss of the family to [[DragonAscendant Johnny Sack]] once Billy's and Angelo's deaths have become the most recent of several casualties in the EnemyCivilWar.
102	* LawOfInverseFertility: Adriana had enough grief over it just while she was alive, and it ends up becoming fatal for her. Chris had been [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor struggling]] with whether to join Adriana in Witness Protection. He catches sight of a father with his young children at a gas station. The sight reminds him of his own desire for children and ends up convincing him to [[UndyingLoyalty side with Tony S]].
103	* LoveMartyr: Adriana outright dies as a direct consequence of her love for Chris. She loved him so much, that she never considered that if push ever came to shove, he would ultimately choose the [=DiMeo=] Crime Family over her.
104	* LuredIntoATrap: Tony S calls up Adriana, and [[BlatantLies tells her]] that Chris [[DrivenToSuicide tried to commit suicide]]. Silvio is going to pick her up and drive her to the hospital to see Chris. Silvio does indeed pick her up but instead takes her to a remote location in the woods and [[KilledOffscreen shoots her to death]].
105	* ManBehindTheMan: Rusty Millio tries to counsel Little Carmine to ramp up the EnemyCivilWar against Johnny Sack, but Little Carmine [[KnowWhenToFoldEm has had enough]].
106	* MirroringFactions: It's hard to see the FBI agents as any better than the mobsters they're investigating. They threaten to throw Adriana to the wolves in ways that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything resonate]] with similar scenes of the Jersey Mobsters making [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Offers That Can't Be Refused]] or [[ShameIfSomethingHappened implying unfortunate consequences]] should they not get their way. And indeed, forcing their demands on Adriana while not doing a thing to protect her [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leads to her murder]].
107	* MortonsFork: The FBI tightens it even further on Adriana. She either has to face the music of a decades-long sentence for obstructing a murder investigation or wear a wire in the presence of Chris and Tony, something she has gone out of her way to avoid up until now.
108	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
109	** The look on Little Carmine's face says he's carrying a lot of guilt over the numerous deaths that have resulted from his EnemyCivilWar against Johnny Sack.
110	** Chris breaks down once he realizes he came within an inch of [[KillTheOnesYouLove strangling Adriana to death]].
111	* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Chris about Tony S: "That's the guy, Adriana. My Uncle Tony. The guy I'm goin' to Hell for."
112	* {{Nepotism}}: Chris feels that Tony S gives Tony B preferential treatment, even despite [[SpannerInTheWorks Tony B]] drawing the Jersey family into the crosshairs of the [[GreaterScopeVillain New York family]], on the basis that they were cousins. Of course, Chris [[{{Hypocrite}} seems to forget]] that he himself caught so many breaks just for being Tony S' nephew.
113	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The FBI won't protect Adriana and keep her under surveillance unless she wears a wire. That includes an inflexible refusal to protect her at the most crucial moment she needed it when she's trying to persuade Chris to join WitnessProtection and puts herself at risk. And predictably, it [[KilledOffscreen doesn't end well for her]].
114	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tony S gives Chris one for falling OffTheWagon after Adriana's death.
115	* NotMeThisTime: Tony S denies condoning Tony B's hit on Billy, but it's a little hard when Johnny Sack already had a GutFeeling that Tony S [[BlatantLies lied through his teeth]] about Tony B not killing Joey Peeps.
116	* OffTheGrid: Nobody can find Tony B, [[{{Foreshadowing}} at least for the time being ...]]
117	* OffTheWagon: Chris relapses into heroin use to cope with Adriana's death.
118	* OhCrap:
119	** Chris, when it sinks in that "Danielle" was an FBI agent all along, and therefore Adriana has also been TheMole for a year now.
120	** Adriana, once Silvio stops the car and gets out.
121	* OnePhoneCall: Adriana manages to end her grilling by the FBI, at least temporarily, by stating that she wants to talk to a lawyer before going any further.
122	* PetTheDog:
123	** Tony tries to make Adriana feel better after getting verbally abused by her {{Jerkass}} boyfriend, Chris.
124	** Agent Sanseverino is the relatively nicest to Adriana among the FBI agents. Emphasis on relative though.
125	* PhoneTraceRace: Silvio has a phone company connection named Gerard. Tony S has Silvio call on Gerard to put traps on Tony S' lines to begin the search for Tony B. The one call where both Tonys speak to each other allows Tony S to trace the call to a bar in upstate New York.
126	* PrecisionFStrike:
127	** A.J.: "This is fuckin' weird!"
128	** Also when Tony S tells Johnny Sack to go fuck himself.
129	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Valentina gives Tony S one as best she can, despite her condition, and with a ClusterFBomb to boot.
130	* RedemptionRejection: Chris actually does seriously think of joining Adriana in Witness Protection. Unfortunately for Adriana, Chris [[ButterflyOfDoom seeing a man with his young children]] likely sealed her fate.
131	* RejectedApology: Phil to Tony S: "Take your fuckin' sorries, and stick em' in your ass!"
132	* RevengeBeforeReason: Tony B could have had at least the $200,000 per year casino for the rest of his life, and possibly moved up even further in the Jersey mob. But he threw it all way [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge trying to avenge]] [[BestFriend Angelo]], thereby putting himself in the crosshairs of both the Jersey and the New York mob.
133	* RevengeByProxy: Both Phil and Johnny make threats along these lines against Tony. Unsurprisingly, Johnny [[IrrationalHatred zeroes in on]] [[SmallNameBigEgo Chris]] as the Proxy.
134	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: How the Jersey mobsters regard Adriana's fate.
135	* RuleOfSymbolism: Sure, Tony S has [[BreakUpMakeUpScenario has made up with Carmela]]. But he watches ''Film/ItsAGift'' on the TV after his welcome back dinner with Carmela and A.J. Every character in the Soprano household could be thought of as having a perfect parallel in one of the characters of the movie, suggesting that Tony has condemned himself to an AwfulWeddedLife.
136	* SadisticChoice: Johnny Sack forces one on Tony S. Tony S either has to allow Phil to give Tony B a CruelAndUnusualDeath, or face all-out war against the [[GreaterScopeVillain New York family]]. Sack won't even allow Tony S to provide Tony B with a MercyKill.
137	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Tony S has long since lost interest in Valentina, and dumps her. She's effectively PutOnABus from this point onwards.
138	* ShoutOut:
139	** The scene with Christopher and Adriana where both of them are crying over the consequences of Adriana being an informant, including Chris's strangled wail of "Oh, God, what are we gonna do?!" mirror a similar scene in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' where Henry and Karen Hill are falling apart at the realization they are in mortal danger from Paulie Cicero and his crew after Henry's narcotics bust.
140	** The scene with Tony Soprano sitting alone in his backyard reminiscing about his cousin closely resembles the ending scene of ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'', in which Michael Corleone sits alone at his Lake Tahoe compound remembering a moment shared with his family.
141	* SilverFox: The {{Flashback}} makes a point of starting with Phil fixing his notorious silver hair in the reflection of the bar window.
142	* SlasherSmile: Silvio wears a really disturbing one as he's driving Adriana away to her death.
143	* SoundtrackDissonance: "Summer Snow" by Lou Christie is playing while Phil is filled with TranquilFury over Billy's murder.
144	* SpottingTheThread: Tony B is initially OffTheGrid. Between Gerard the phone company guy confirming that Tony B called from a bar in upstate New York, and Uncle Pat confirming that developments at his farm have been delayed by the need for environmental permits, Tony S has figured out that Tony B has [[UnsafeHaven gone into hiding at Uncle Pat's farm]].
145	* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: A pole camera conveniently catches Adriana trying to DestroyTheEvidence.
146	* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
147	** "Leaving California" by Shawn Smith is playing while Silvio is driving Adriana. The lyrics perfectly capture Adriana's desire to leave New Jersey and start a new life with Chris.
148	** "Barracuda" by Heart is playing just as Silvio comes to a stop in the remote location of the woods. He "ambushes" her, she's trying to crawl away "down on her knees", and he kills her "quick".
149	* TakeAThirdOption:
150	** Adriana has thus far navigated her MortonsFork by giving the FBI information that was relatively innocuous or giving them solid information on investigatory targets that were not as crucial as, say, Chris or Tony. Agent Cubitoso takes it away from her once the Nieves' murder allows him to tighten the MortonsFork on her, even more, to try and force her to wear a wire in the presence of Chris and Tony.
151	** She desperately latches onto what she hopes will be a new Third Option, trying to win Chris over to joining WitnessProtection. It backfires horribly for her.
152	* TakeCareOfTheKids: Tony B asks Tony S to look after his boys. Tony S grants the request.
153	* TapOnTheHead: Gilbert Nieves initially has Matush and Kamal uneasy by brandishing a knife. But Kamal turns the tables by hitting Gilbert on the head from behind with a solid ashtray.
154	* TantrumThrowing: Chris smashes his wine glass on the bathroom wall after Tony cuts him out of half of the cigarette operation. He later goes on a loud drunken rant about Tony in his apartment, much to Adriana's dismay.
155	* TookALevelInBadass: Matush up until this point has been a total ButtMonkey for the Jersey mobsters. Now we see him brutally murder a much larger Gilbert Nieves, albeit with help from Kamal.
156	* TranquilFury: The first scene of Phil has him simmering in rage with a ThousandYardStare, just before his {{Flashback}} of Billy's murder.
157	* UngratefulBastard: How Tony S feels about Tony B taking over the casino but then [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom putting the entire Jersey family in danger]] by [[SpannerInTheWorks going after the Leotardo brothers]].
158	* WaxingLyrical: Christopher's line "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" is from Music/BruceSpringsteen's song "Born to Run".
159	* WhamEpisode: One of the biggest DramaBomb episodes in the series. After a season of working with the government, Adriana finally tells Chris that she is an informant. Chris rats her out to Tony and Ade is shot in the woods by Silvio. Chris is in so much pain that he has a heroin relapse, causing Tony to snap and beat him up. Tony learns where Tony B is, but refuses to tell Johnny Sack when he learns that he wants to let Phil torture him. Tony and Carmela finally reconcile and get back together.
160	* VillainHasAPoint: As Johnny Sack points out to Tony, Phil is well within his rights to seek revenge on Tony B. Tony B is not a made man and his hit attempt on the Leotardos, as well as his previous murder of Joey Peeps, was unsanctioned and resulted in the death of made man Billy. By the rules of the mafia, Tony B should be a dead man.
161	* YouCantGoHomeAgain:
162	** Tony S makes it clear to Tony B that he's not welcome back among the Jersey mobsters anymore. Not to mention that the New York mobsters would love nothing more than to get their hands on Tony B.
163	** When debating whether or not to go into Witness Protection, Chris emphasizes to Adriana that they would never be able to come back to New Jersey and would have to sever contact with everyone, even other civilians like her mother. Adriana accepts this, saying that she doesn't want to come back and just wants them to be together. Additionally, in the daydream before her murder, she pictures what it would be like if she had just packed her suitcase and driven away from New Jersey into parts unknown. Sadly, it's Chris' very fear of this trope that contributes to him confessing Adriana's betrayal to Tony.
164	* YourDaysAreNumbered: Tony S [[ILied comes clean]] to Tony B about the bungled heist partly because he's felt [[GuiltComplex guilty]] about it over the years. But the fact that he does so now also implies that it's only a matter of time before the inevitable fate comes for Tony B.

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