Letters to the Editor
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The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
Remember a couple of episodes ago when Lil Carmine was going to broker a peace between Phil and Tony? That's important.
Remember when Phil said Tony's problem was he never did a day of time? That's important.
Tony is arrested at the opening of the last episode.
Paulie is gunned downed on the can some where.
Tony is being questioned on the murder of Adriana.
The Car with Carmella driving to the cop shop is forced off the road and explodes.
Tony is questioned on the Murder of Big Pussy.
Sil is strangled in his hospital bed.
Tony is questioned on the Murder of the guy on the college trip.
AJ Moves on Phil and Botches it and is brutally killed.
Tony is questioned on the murder of Christopher.
As Tony is brought into the court house Janet is at the top of the steps smoking a cigarette. She turns to greet him when shots are fired from a car. She's hit and falls at Tony's feet and dies.
The Prosecutor makes a motion to modify the Christopher charge to attempted murder and Calls his final witness. Christopher.
Christopher testifies as Tony's nephew and attempted victim but denies any involvement. There's nobody left to refute.
The Jury brings back Four guilty verdicts (or more)
Our last shot of Tony is him being led out in cuffs facing multiple life sentences.
The Last scene is Phil and Christopher walking away together (that's why he canceled the meeting.) Chris gets Jersey. His last line to Phil is "If Hollywood came up with that nobody would believe it"
Chris walks away, goes to get in the car and his head explodes.
The last shot is Adriana's mother holding a gun.
Roll Credits.
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RIP Sil . . . then it gets really serious . . .
The last episode will begin with Silvio's wake, viewing, whatever they call that.
The next 30 minutes will be classic suspense: Tony chases down Phil, has a short philosophical chat with him, then blows him away.
The rest of the episode will NOT be a furiously-paced tying up of loose ends. Tony, Carm, A.J. and Meadow will just come together and affirm that they are all dependent upon each other. By the end, we will know that their lives are going to go on just as they always have. The Sopranos are immortal. That's what David Chase has been trying to tell us since Episode One.
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2 Ideas
1. Tony will knowingly sacrifice the life of one of his supposedly well-loved children or his wife in order to save himself.
2. The final scene will see the ducks return to the emptied swimming pool.
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ok....here's what's NOT going to happen
nobody is going to come back from the dead. once you are dead on the sopranos....that is that. this is not general hospital or something.
nobody who we have never seen even talk to an FBI agent (of the main characters) is going to have turned out was working with the FBI all along. no "mission impossible" twists.
here's something else that won't happen: lots of resolving all the plot threads. the sopranos makes a point of NOT resolving everything compulsively. it is not lazy writing, just the style of the show and i think it really helps the realism.
Janice will reappear. that will be some good stuff, whatever it is. she is as merciless as any of the gangsters.
although it would be funny to see tony in witness protection it is an unlikely ending...if only because it would be a direct rip from goodfellas.
other than that...it is a total crap shoot.
i will agree with an earlier post that whatever happens david chase is indeed a dark and troubled guy with a pretty grim outlook on both the past and the future, maybe even a nihilist. so the end will reflect that one way or the other. but that does not mean that tony will die. chase could see him surviving and continuing on as as much of a nihilistic statement as him dying, considering all the horrible stuff he has done and born witness to.
also, although we know from the beginning episode (of this half of season 6) that the FBI is still after tony (bigtime) it is interesting to note that we have seen nothing of this investigation since then, unlike the earlier pursuit of tony by the feds in which we were privy to many of their meetings and knew exactly what they were up to. agent harris did not warn tony about the hit only to help set him up for arrest....he thought about it for a second...and then went after him. it seemed more like a personal decision than an FBI one. so that argues against tony getting nailed by the FBI.
48 more hours of this....whew.
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It's "Pleshette"
Tony should die, and his death should be consistent with his life. He could choke on a pretzel. Or trip over a shoe he left in the middle of the floor and hit his head on the corner of a table. He might run into the street, escaping his personal demons, and be hit by a truck filled with kinky boots.
He's not a tragic hero; he's a little, meaningless man, deserving of a little, meaningless death.
And no matter what happens Sunday, David Chase will never top the end of "Newhart."
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Paulie and Parisi & the metaphorical knife
All of the hints so far are pointing in two directions -- Parisi and Paulie (the two P's). One or both (and maybe Parisi Jr. with Meadow's help?) will stab Tony in the back and I think it will be a metaphorical knife, not a real one.
Another death? more blood? more physical agony? - ho hum, who cares. No. Much more exciting, more dramatic and more excruciatingly painful will be the sight of Tony done in by those he thought he could love and trust.
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Breathed rules
Please tell me the plan is to keep asking Breahted to contribute these pictorial comments!
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Tony Loses Everything And Winds Up Homeless
Booze is his only escape. One day he buys a cheap bottle of something called Viper to dry and drown his sorrows.
Click on my name below to see what happens next.