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just one thing: I too considered the possibility that T was putting Chris out of his misery, as it were, except for the look in his eyes. I call that look The Rattlesnake. I recently directed Richard III and my lead actor and I studied James Gandolfini's Rattlesnake look in discussions about King R, so I'm always looking for it. It's like everything human in him vacates the premises, and only the Rattlesnake is left, to do whatever deed the other parts of him are too conflicted to do. His eyes become hooded and almost seem to glow a sickly yellow and every part of Tony you ever liked is nowhere to be found. So cold. I don't know if that's a Gandolfini special trick, or a combination of his acting with the way it's shot, but it's chilling. And was present while he suffocated Chris, so I can't call that a mercy killing.
