The Sopranos: Season 2

Four months after the events of the first season, Pussy returns, claiming he was getting his back treated, although Tony remains suspicious. He has Junior's successor Philly Parisi killed for talking about Tony trying to kill Livia. Janice comes to town to take care of Livia, but Tony gets angry when he realizes she may be trying to profit off of his selling their mother's house. He calls Melfi to tell her she can come out of hiding, and tries to continue seeing her when he has a panic attack wh

Junior is released from prison and placed on house arrest. He informs Tony that the director of Livia's nursing home is the one who is spreading the rumors about his attempt to kill her, so Tony has the man killed. Tony deals with black workers demanding jobs at his construction sites by colluding with the protestors' leader behind their backs. Janice decides to move in with Livia when she is released from the hospital. Tony and Janice sign a DNR for Livia, which A.J. reveals to her without know

Meadow uses Livia's house for a party, but manipulates her parents into giving her a mild punishment. Janice initially takes her side, but changes her tune when she sees the state of the house, causing an argument between her and Carmela about the latter's parenting. Melfi has an awkward encounter with Tony at a restaurant, confiding in her own psychiatrist, Elliot Kupferberg, that she feels guilt over no longer wanting to treat him. She later has a nightmare about him passing out while driving

Tony, Paulie and Chris go to Naples to negotiate the price of stolen cars with a crime family. Tony learns that the daughter of the family’s boss is running things. She tries to seduce him but he turns her down due to their business relationship, and he decreases the price on the cars in exchange for taking her best man, Furio Giunta. Paulie, excited to go to Italy for the first time, is frustrated to find that he does not fit in. Chris, determined to see Mount Vesuvius, instead spends the trip

Furio is brought to America, prompting Tony to promote Paulie and their friend Silvio Dante, but not Pussy, angering him. Tony discovers that Janice and Richie have restarted their old relationship. While he learns from Hesh Rabkin that Johnny Soprano also had panic attacks, Kupferberg tries to get Melfi to see that she experiences a thrill from treating Tony, but she takes him back anyway. Adriana enrolls Chris in an acting class as a birthday present. He struggles until he performs the final s

Tony admits to Melfi that he feels an innate anger towards absentmindedly happy people he sees on the street. He takes over Junior's gambling game and is accosted by his non-mob friend, David Scatino, asking to play. Knowing that Scatino is a compulsive gambler, Tony tries to stop him but eventually relents, resulting in Scatino being in debt. As Scatino continues to stall, Tony beats him, forcing him to sell his son Eric's car to him as partial payment. Tony tries to give it to Meadow, but she

Chris meets and begins sleeping with his cousin's fiancée Amy Safir, who works for Jon Favreau. Adriana, having saved a copy of Chris's screenplay, encourages him to show it to Favreau, who quickly takes a liking to Chris. Chris begins to ignore his duties towards Tony and spends more time with Favreau and Amy. Chris discovers that Favreau has written a confidential mob anecdote into his newest script, enraging him. Favreau returns to Hollywood and Amy does not answer Chris's calls, so he confro

Carmela asks Jeannie Cusamano to get her Georgetown University alumna sister to write a letter of recommendation for Meadow. When the woman refuses, Carmela talks to her directly, her status as Tony's wife intimidating her into writing it. After a fight with Chris, Adriana leaves him, but he goes to her and proposes engagement, which she accepts. Richie gives Tony a leather jacket that belonged to a feared mobster as a sign of respect, but Tony is not impressed. Later, Richie sees the Sopranos'

Chris briefly dies on the operating table, but survives despite losing his spleen. When he wakes, he claims he saw Hell and that Satan told him he is destined for it, delivering a message to Tony and Paulie. While Tony dismisses this, Paulie is deeply frightened by it, going to a psychic who claims the spirits of those he killed are watching him. He complains to his priest that the donations he has made to the church should protect him, and declares he will no longer give money if they cannot pr

A witness to Matt's murder identifies Tony to the police, but withdraws his statement when he learns who he is. Tony's crew runs a fraud on Scatino's store, and they use him to get scalped airline tickets. Angry with his reduced cut of the store, Richie suggests to Junior that Tony should be killed, reminding him that he tried to do the same thing when Junior admonishes him. Carmela meets Scatino's widowed brother-in-law Victor Musto, and the two develop an attraction to each other and kiss. He

When Junior and Richie sell cocaine on Tony's legitimate garbage routes, Tony argues with Richie and has a panic attack, almost having another when Janice and Richie announce their engagement. Tony's lawyer advises him to keep his nose clean following Matt's murder, but he finds himself bored at his no-show job. Junior is released from the hospital but placed back on house arrest, and he gets his hand stuck down the kitchen disposal for hours. Melfi begins drinking more before her sessions with

After another argument about the garbage routes, Richie goes to a capo to get approval for a hit on Tony. Junior, correctly suspecting Richie will not be able to turn him, instead rats him out. Tony confides in Silvio who suggests that there is nothing to be gained by keeping Richie alive. Separately, Richie and Janice have an argument, and Richie punches her in the face. In retaliation, she shoots him. Tony and his men clean up the body and arrange for Janice to leave New Jersey. Tony speaks to

Fed up with Livia's stressing over her living situation, Tony gives her Scatino's airline tickets. He contracts food poisoning, having a series of intense fever dreams. In a delirious dream, Pussy, in the form of a fish, tells Tony that he is an informant because he was passed over for promotion. Tony wakes and goes to Pussy's house, pretending to be sick so he can search Pussy's room and find his wire. He takes Pussy, Silvio and Paulie out on a boat, where they kill Pussy and dump his body in t