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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 1 "For All Debts Public and Private"
Tony finds that fiscal concerns are foremost at home as well. Tony still meets with Junior in Dr. Schreck's office. Carmela wants Tony to do some serious estate planning. But even though Tony assures her she's better off being ignorant, Carmela is far from blissful about it. Junior and Carmela have given Tony cause for concern, however, and he calls a meeting of his capos to make those concerns known. Junior decides to promote Bobby Bacala, putting him in charge of his loan shark business.
Adriana's new best friend, Danielle Ciccolella, is really Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone. She's been hanging out with Adriana a lot, even accompanying her to Tony and Carmela's house. Tony gives Christopher the address of Lt. Detective Barry Haydu, the man Tony claims murdered Christopher's father.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 2 "No-Show"
Tony's give more responsibility to Christopher. Tony calls his new capo on the carpet. Christopher's aversion to Danielle has been growing. Shortly after the disputed grope, Adriana is picked up by Agents Ciccerone and Harris. In an FBI meeting room, she's told she can either become their informant or the defendant in a drug possession case. Tony and Carmela are having a serious problem with Meadow. She's spent the entire summer lying by the pool and now, five days from the start of classes, she still hasn't registered. Tony finds he also has to deal with his older sister. Janice is now enjoying a budding romance with Ralph Cifaretto, despite Tony's warning that he's no good for her. Meadow ends up at Columbia, registering for classes.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 3 "Christopher"
Tony's crew is preoccupied with charges being leveled against another Italian: Christopher Columbus. Columbus Day is only days away and the New Jersey Council of Indian Affairs is planning to disrupt the annual parade. Bobby Bacala's wife, Karen, is killed in a car accident. Rosalie Aprile is hit especially hard by Karen's death. Ralph's popularity is taking a lot of hits lately. Johnny Sack is openly hostile towards him. Tony's guys try everything they can think of to rescue Columbus from the red man's revenge. Ralph threatens to expose Iron Eyes Cody as an actor of Sicilian ancestry, but that turns out to be unfounded. Tony tries to get Councilman Zellman to intervene, but he begs off. Chief Doug Smith, CEO of a Mohonk casino, tells Tony he'll stop the protest, but he also fails. Ultimately, both the parade and the protest take place.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 4 "The Weight"
Meadow's meltdowns and Junior's RICO trial. Right now, the biggest problem for Tony is Ralph. Johnny saw Donny laughing in a bar and assumed it was about Ginny. Johnny attacks Donny, beating him with his fists until he crumples to the pavement. Johnny asks for Carmine's approval for a hit on Ralph. Tony gets a phone call from Carmine. The old Boss tells him that Johnny's not listening to reason. Tony's in the position of having to kill one of his best friends. On Junior's advice, he sends Silvio and Christopher to engage the services of Lou DiMaggio and the Atwell Avenue Boys. Carmela and Furio seem to have eyes for each other. Johnny's vendetta against Ralph is eventually resolved in a way that makes things easier for Tony. After catching Ginny with contraband Twix bars, Johnny decides to call off a hit he ordered on Ralph.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 5 "Pie-o-my"
Ralph buys a filly named Pie-O-My. Tony manages to dig himself out by agreeing to sign papers so that Brian can make future stock investments. Janice is hard at work trying to initiate one with Bobby Bacala. As fate would have it, Janice and the Baccilieris are neighbors, and with the aid of binoculars she can effectively surveil the comings and goings of Bobby's well-wishers. The Feds are tightening their grip on Adriana. Agents Harris and Sanseverino (Agent Ciccerone has been replaced, for Adriana's protection) have been phoning Adriana, as well as picking her up for impromptu interrogations. Tony is unaware of Adriana's dilemma. Pie-O-My is sick and the vet refuses to treat her until Ralph's unpaid bills are settled. Ralph's maid calls Tony, claiming she can't locate Ralph to handle the problem.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 6 "Everybody Hurts"
Tony has barely made this step towards securing his future when his past comes back to haunt him in a particularly abrupt and cruel fashion. Carmela shares some gossip. Tony, drunk and furious, shows up at Dr. Melfi's hurling accusations. "Why the fuck didn't you help her?" he screams. Melfi is afraid, but holds her ground. From that point, Tony does everything he can think of to prove that he's not a toxic person. He makes Carmela happy by signing the papers for a living trust. He helps Carmela's cousin Brian score some significantly discounted designer suits. He takes Carmela, Brian and his wife, and Furio and his blind date to a Billy Joel concert. Tony lends Artie the money. But when the Frenchman defaults Artie becomes despondent. He swallows an overdose of pills. In his session with Dr. Melfi, Tony is philosophical about Gloria and Artie.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 7 "Watching Too Much Television"
Brian accompanies Ralph and Tony to breakfast, where Ralph asks the young financial adviser for investment tips. Brian lays out a way to use bogus real estate deals to con money out of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, but he's not serious about pursuing it. Tony and Ralph enlist the aid of State Assemblyman Ron Zellman and his old friend from his activist days, Maurice Tiffen, to create a federally funded windfall. A television courtroom drama gives Adriana what could be the solution to her problem: if she and Christopher were married, she couldn't testify against him. So Adriana pops the question and, despite his concern that Adriana might not be able to have little Moltisantis. Paulie complains to Johnny Sack that Tony and Ralph have an exclusive deal going with Zellman.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 8 "Mergers & Acquisitions"
Tony discover a mutual attraction for Valentina La Paz. So according to Tony's rules, Valentina is fair game. Furio, in Naples for his father's funeral, is faced with a more serious situation. When he confesses to his uncle that he's in love with his don's wife, the old man bluntly tells him to stay away from her. Carmela's feelings for Furio aren't the only unrequited pangs in the Garden State. Paulie's mother, Nucci, moves into Green Grove and finds that despite her best efforts, she can't get the other "girls" to accept her. The clique's ringleader is Cookie Cirillo, a matron from the old neighborhood, and Paulie determines that she's going to be Nucci's friend. To that end, he pays a visit to her son, Chucky, and asks him to intercede. But Cookie hangs tough, forcing Paulie to get even tougher: he sends Little Paulie and Benny Fazio to break Chucky's arm. Shortly afterward Cookie sees the error of her ways.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 9 "Whoever Did This"
Junior trial went overtime, so he missed the Early Bird Special. Then, while hurrying through a swarm of reporters, he was hit on the head by a boom mike and sent tumbling down the courthouse steps. But that knock on the head may turn out to be a golden opportunity: his attorney decides to use it to get the charges against him dismissed. Ralph's son, Justin, is gravely injured while playing with a bow and arrow. In response, a grief-and-guilt-stricken Ralph does some serious soul searching, even going so far as to visit Father Intintola. Ralph asks Rosalie Aprile to marry him and starts a scholarship fund in memory of Jackie Aprile, Junior. After a suspicious fire at the stable causes the death of Pie-O-My, Tony is certain that Ralph is responsible. He shows up at Ralph's place, accusing him of having Pie-O-My killed for the insurance money.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 10 "The Strong, Silent Type"
Furio shows up at the Soprano house, bearing souvenirs for A.J. and "Maedo," but, to her great disappointment, nothing for Carmela. Even though Furio's trying to keep his distance, Carmela finds herself ever more drawn to him. Carmela's not the only one being told what she doesn't want to hear. Christopher's heroin habit can no longer be ignored. Junior, considering what Christopher might tell the FBI if they got hold of him, advises Tony to put him out of his misery. Christopher promptly checks into a rehab center in Pennsylvania. And what about Ralph? Tony eventually comes up with a plausible and adroit explanation - courtesy of Johnny Sack. The New York under boss tries to shake Tony down for a share of the proceeds of the H.U.D. scam.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 11 "Calling All Cars"
Tony goes to Miami to discuss the matter with Carmine's son, Little Carmine. Lupertazzi the younger assures Tony that he appreciates his dilemma and will "look into" the situation. Judge Runions denies his claim of mental incompetence, meaning the trial will continue. Bobby Bacala assures his boss that he has everything under control. But as stable as Bobby is professionally, he's having trouble on the domestic front. While Janice is forging a new relationship, her brother is ending one. In a session with Dr. Melfi, Tony is more disillusioned by therapy than he's ever been. Although Melfi points out the progress he's made in their four years together Tony remains unconvinced.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 12 "Eloise"
Furio was returning to Italy. Tony's plan to use Little Carmine to smooth things with the elder Carmine backfired, and relations between New York and New Jersey are rapidly deteriorating. When Carmine refuses to compromise on the H.U.D. split, Tony has the old don's new restaurant "redecorated" with spray paint and box cutters. Carmela faces a more personal crisis. Furio's departure leaves her depressed and angry, causing her to pick fights with her family, especially her daughter. When Carmela and Meadow go to the Plaza Hotel to have tea beneath the portrait of Eloise they have a large helping of recriminations with their finger sandwiches. Tony can certainly use the money, since Carmine retaliated for the restaurant vandalism by shutting down construction of the Esplanade.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 4 episode 13 "Whitecaps"
Junior ultimately gained his freedom the old-fashioned way: by threatening one of the jurors. Christopher going to need those strengths, because Tony and Johnny Sack have taken on a huge project: eliminating Carmine. Eager to usurp the old don, Johnny offers Tony some attractive financial inducements to help him. So Tony instructs Christopher to get it done. Carmela has been sick and depressed, and Tony decides to snap her out of it by buying a house at the shore. Carmela begins to come out of her funk until she gets a phone call from Tony's old goomara, Irina. Tony ends up moving into another part of the house. Tony's most endangered relationship is with Carmela. Tony moving out of their home and into a hotel. Where he goes from there remains to be seen.
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The Sopranos television series is created and produced by David Chase. It premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999 and ended its original run of six seasons and 86 episodes on June 10, 2007. The show has also been broadcast on A&E in the United States and internationally. Set in New Jersey, where it also was produced, the series revolves around mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. A major commercial and critical success, The Sopranos is the most financially successful cable series in the history of television and is acknowledged as one of the greatest television series of all time. The series is noted for its high level of quality in all aspects of production and has been particularly recognized for its writing and the performances of its lead actors. The show has been credited for bringing a greater level of artistry to the television medium and paving the way for many successful drama series that followed. It also won numerous awards, including twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes. Two soundtrack albums containing music from the series have been released. The first, titled The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 1999. It contains selections from the show's first two seasons and reached 54 on the U.S. Billboard 200. A second soundtrack compilation, titled BillboardThe Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 2001. This double-disc album contains songs and selected dialogue from the show's first three seasons. It reached 38 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
Creator David Chase's drama series stars three-time Emmy winners James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and Edie Falco as Tony's wife Carmela, plus Lorraine Bracco as therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi, Emmy winner Michael Imperioli as Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti, and Dominic Chianese as Uncle Junior. Also Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr., Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano, Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts, and Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante. Aida Turturro, who plays Tony's sister Janice, returned to the show as a series regular, as well as Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri, John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco, and Vincent Curatola as Johnny Sack. Other cast members of The Sopranos are Ray Abruzzo as Carmine, Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo, Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, Vincent Pastore as "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, Joe Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore, Max Casella as Benny, Lenny Venito as Murmur, Carl Capotoro as Little Paulie, Dan Grimaldi as Patsy, Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco, Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile, Maureen Van Zandt as Gabrielle Dante and Toni Kalem as Angie Bompensiero. Guest stars include Daniel Baldwin, Sydney Pollack, Nancy Sinatra, Jonathan LaPaglia, David Margulies, Geraldo Rivera, Ken Leung, Frank John Hughes, Jerry Adler, Tim Daly, Ben Kingsley.
Games: "Turnpike Trivia Game" is loaded with questions about The Sopranos, the characters, the stories, and the people who created them. "Road To Respect" your task is simple: protect the family; one wrong move and you may get whacked. But if you're crafty enough, you might just get "made."
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The Sopranos For All Debts Public and Private
