The Sopranos: Season 4

Paulie calls Johnny from prison, having been arrested on a gun charge, and complains about Tony's lack of concern. Ralphie cheats on Rosalie with Janice while having dinner at Tony's house. Tony admits to Melfi that he feels the only ways out of his business are "dead or the can" and plans to have Chris take over. He gives Chris, who is using heroin regularly, the address of the retired cop he claims killed his father, but the man insists he was not responsible when Chris follows him home. He ki

Ralphie tells a joke regarding the weight of Johnny's wife, which Paulie's nephew repeats while visiting him. Chris is made temporary capo of Paulie's men, causing resentment between him and Patsy, which escalates when Patsy and Silvio steal from their no-work job against Tony's wishes. The FBI brings Adriana in and demand that she become an informant. Meadow has shown a lack of motivation since Jackie Aprile Jr.'s murder, so Melfi recommends a therapist for her to Tony. The therapist encourages

Junior's RICO trial begins. At a pro-Italian luncheon, the guest speaker makes a point of deriding Italians involved in mafia activity, leaving the mob wives insulted. Bobby's wife Karen is killed in a car accident. Rosalie becomes even more depressed by this news, prompting Ralphie to leave her and attempt to move in with Janice. Janice visits Bobby and is moved by his sincere grief, and decides to break up with Ralphie, doing so by starting a fight and kicking him down the stairs. Paulie tells

Johnny's anger at the joke begins to boil over into meetings between the DiMeo and Lupertazzi families. Boss Carmine Lupertazzi approves of killing Johnny, and Silvio and Chris arrange a hit on him while Johnny puts one out on Ralphie. Johnny goes to see his father, where he will be killed, but forgets something and discovers his wife cheating on her diet. Hurt that she lied to him despite never asking her to lose weight, he calls off the hit. Melfi's son begins acting out while at college, and

The FBI presses Adriana for information, and she reluctantly gives them a tip about Patsy. Janice begins inserting herself into Bobby's home life, trying to pull him out of his grief lest Junior abandon him, as well as trying to get him to eat Karen's last baked ziti that he has been saving to honor her memory. When Chris is away, Adriana finds his stash of heroin and mainlines the drug for the first time. Ralphie's racehorse Pie-O-My wins all of her races. Tony begins demanding more and more of

After discovering that Gloria Trillo committed suicide, Tony does several kind things for people in his life to distract himself from the guilt. Artie takes a loan from Tony so he can distribute Armagnac, only for his supplier to start ignoring his calls. The man beats Artie when he tries to get his money back, and he tries to overdose on pills and calls Tony apologetically, who realizes what is happening and calls 911. Tony agrees to forgive the loan so long as Artie drops his restaurant tab an

Paulie is released from prison, resentful that Tony never contacted him. While watching television, Adriana gets the impression that spouses cannot be forced to testify against each other, and proposes to Chris. He storms out when she tells him she may not be able to have children, but accepts it after Tony and Silvio talk to him. Adriana learns that she was wrong about spousal privilege and joylessly unwraps her presents at her bridal shower. Carmela's cousin tips Tony off to a mortgage fraud s

Furio goes to Naples for his father's funeral, where he confesses to his uncle that he is in love with Carmela. His uncle warns him that he will have to kill Tony if he wants to be with her. Paulie's mother Nucci moves into a retirement community, where she is ostracized by a group that one of her friends is in. Paulie pays off the woman's son, but when nothing changes, he has the man's arm broken. His wife threatens to pull his mother out of the home unless she is kinder to Nucci. Ralphie's new

As Junior's trial continues, Tony gets the idea to begin feigning memory loss and force a mistrial, which Junior passes off to an investigator, only to have a genuinely dazed conversation with his neighbor that he seems to forget. Ralphie's son is hit with an arrow while playing with his friend, leaving him with brain damage. Believing God is punishing his son in his stead, Ralphie asks Phil Intintola for advice and tries to do right by the Aprile family. The stable housing Pie-O-My burns down,

Chris accidentally kills Adriana's dog while high and gets robbed while trying to buy more heroin, and he hits Adriana when she suggests he go to rehab. Junior advises Tony to kill him, but he instead organizes an intervention that quickly deteriorates into Chris being beaten. Tony informs Chris that he is being moved to a rehab clinic. Tony has a hostile meeting with Johnny over the Lupertazzi family not being included in the mortgage scheme. Furio returns, and Carmela continually makes up excu

Tony dreams about Carmela driving Johnny Soprano's car with his father, Ralphie, and Gloria/Svetlana inside. Melfi suggests that it represents his desire to settle things with them, but he becomes frustrated with the seeming lack of progress in their sessions and decides to quit. Annoyed at Carmela forcing him to play with Bobby's kids, A.J. pranks them with a séance that leaves them terrified of Karen's ghost. Janice guides them to their ouija board, scaring them further. Bobby comes to her for

Bobby picks a juror at Junior's trial to have intimidated into holding out. Carmine refuses to compromise on the mortgage scheme, and Johnny meets with Tony and implies that he should be killed. Paulie encounters Carmine and realizes he has no idea who he is despite the good word Johnny apparently put in for him. He learns that Nucci's friend keeps her money in her house, and is forced to kill her while stealing it. He gives a large cut to Tony, putting them back on good terms. After Furio and C

Because of the one holdout juror, Junior's trial is declared a mistrial. Tony agrees to kill Carmine in exchange for all of the profit from the mortgage scheme, and has a clean Chris hire his former heroin dealers to do the job. Little Carmine reports that his father has conceded, and Chris has the dealers killed to prevent knowledge of the attempt from leaking. Tony purchases a house on the Jersey Shore for his family from owner Alan Sapinsly, only for Irina to call the house in revenge for Ton