Letters to the Editor
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IMHO, Tony's epiphany was that "God" approved of his ruthless, taking-care-of-business, it's-not-personal transformation
After the accident, for a moment there, Tony reminded me of Oliver Hardy, "well, that's another fine mess you've gotten me into," with Christofuh obsessing about how Tony needs to pretend HE was driving, to take the rap for the accident, because, Chrissy's using again. Always about Chrissy and what Chrissy needs ... no apology, no nuttin, just more "what Chrissy wants." And this just after Chrissy's givinge Tony ADVICE to hand over the 25%, to stop and smell the roses, to cherish every day, yada yada yada ... what a sorry excuse for a human being Chrissy really is ... and we won't even mention the "abandoment" of Tony to make that knife-in-the-back (Cleaver to the Head) movie.
I think the defection and alienation of Christofuh is -- largly -- what has turned Tony's world to dust. Before, Tony could live vicariously through Chrissy and with Chrissy as his posse, getting a taste now and then ... but then Chrissy was a suck-up wannabe heir-apparent ... who temporariliy abandoned the possition. [Dissatisfaction with the heir is an important theme -- Christofuh earned his spot, AJ hasn't a chance or a clue, yet, socially he's Tony Soprano, JUNIOR, and that has weight.)
Were there drugs in the infant car seat? That's what I thought ... but others say different. Anyhow, I think Tony killed Christopher after having one of those, "If only he'd died" moments of anger realizing variously that Chrissy was stoned, had talked out-of-turn at the meeting, was jonesing for a fix, was driving Tony around (at high speed) in a vehicle while holding... and that as long as he lived, Tony was going to be cleaning up after Chrissy (as he had had to do with Ade)... and Chrissy would always be a liability wrt turning state's witness with the feds with no stomach for hard time ... the solution was obvious.
Unfortunately for Tony, NO ONE ELSE would/could admit to understanding or condoning the act.
Anyhow, I've felt for the story arc that Tony's gambling was very much a "looking for a sign of God's love" kinda thing ... as I think it is for many people (though they bridle at the suggestion). When Tony tossed his heart and humanity out the window in the name of business, god smiled on him .... or that's how he took it. Stay tuned.
Who'd have guessed that those days of Tony, Ade, and Chrissy really were gonna be the "good old days"?
(FWIW, I suspect that Crissy really believed that Ade and Tony had hooked up at some point, as represented in Cleaver ... as he said about Tony, "He thinks it all belongs to him." Ade, the Juliana Margolis character and now the stripper/hooker in Vegas and Tony's leering appreciation of the new widow ...uglee)