The Sopranos: Season 5

Ten months after the events of the fourth season, four men imprisoned for two decades are released on parole, while Carmine Lupertazzi has a stroke. Chris is increasingly frustrated with having to cover dinner bills for Paulie, who intentionally racks up an expensive one. They argue and are interrupted by a waiter upset by his meager tip. Chris throws a brick at him when he insults them, causing him to have a seizure. Paulie kills him and takes the money from the bill. Tony, now living in Livia'

A friend of Tony's, secretly an FBI informant, gifts him a painting of the Rat Pack. After receiving a tip that the man is working against him, Tony throws the painting into a river and the man is found dead the next day. Carmine dies, leaving Johnny determined not to let Little Carmine take over the Lupertazzi family. Tony's released cousin Tony Blundetto makes a joke about Tony's weight upon his return. Tony offers him a place in his criminal ventures, but Blundetto is happy with getting a leg

Released DiMeo capo Michele "Feech" La Manna brutalizes a local gardener while trying to get his nephew's business off the ground. Paulie beats up Feech's nephew in retaliation, and Tony decides to split the territory in half and give the gardener a meager payout, provided he mows his and Johnny's lawns for free. Lorraine Calluzzo, a loan shark working for Little Carmine, is attacked by released Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo, his brother Billy, and Joey "Peeps" Peparelli. While trying to resolve

As A.J.'s grades begin to slip, Tony and Carmela argue about how to deal with him, during which she points out that Tony has no real friends and that his men laugh at his jokes out of obligation, which he tests by telling a joke and finds her to be correct. Feech's men steal cars from the wedding of an associate of Tony's, and Tony remembers Feech did not laugh at his joke. He has Chris set Feech up to be caught by his parole officer with a load of stolen TVs, and Feech gazes longingly at the ou

Tony has a mole removed that turns out to be skin cancer. He has a sexually tense moment with Adriana at the Crazy Horse, but he does not act, admitting to Melfi that he wanted to but understood it would be bad for everyone involved. While driving to buy cocaine with Adriana, Tony swerves to avoid hitting a raccoon and crashes. A rumor spreads that the accident happened because Adriana was performing fellatio on him, which Chris learns of when Vito jokes about it, almost starting a fight. He bea

A.J. is sent back to Carmela after he and Tony frequently argue. She and Wegler begin having sex, which she confesses to Phil Intintola but ignores his criticisms of her. Wegler pressures one of A.J.'s teachers to give him a passing grade on a paper and eventually concludes that Carmela is using him. He leaves, and Carmela laments to Hugh DeAngelis that her motives will always be questioned as Tony's wife. Blundetto and his Korean employer start off hostile, but they grow to respect each other a

Chris invites J.T. Dolan, a screenwriter he met in rehab, to a gambling game, which puts him in severe debt. Chris beats him up after he cannot pay, putting him back on heroin, and he sends Dolan back to rehab. Junior, still on house arrest, begins going to the funerals of anyone he vaguely knows to get out of the house, but weeps uncontrollably at the funeral of Tony's uncle and admits to his physician that the lack of purpose in his life depresses him. Tony meets Johnny Soprano's old comare an

Carmela's mother asks her not to invite Tony to Hugh's seventy-fifth surprise birthday, which Tony agrees to. Junior intentionally ruins the surprise, and Hugh demands Tony come. Tony gifts him a Beretta shotgun, but an upper-class guest devalues it by pointing out the best Berettas are not exported. Carmela realizes her mother wanted Tony not to come solely so he would not embarrass her in front of the guest, despite his good behavior throughout, and tells her off. Carmela and Tony have sex aft

Tony has a panic attack after learning that both Blundetto and Peeps's killer have limps. Johnny suspects both Little Carmine's and Blundetto's parts in the hit, but Tony covers for Blundetto when confronted. In therapy, Tony admits the truth as to why he gives Blundetto so much leeway: on the night the Tonys were supposed to commit a robbery, Tony had a panic attack after arguing with Livia and injured himself, leaving Blundetto to go to jail. Tony gets Meadow's boyfriend Finn DeTrolio a job at

Carmela and Tony argue about his actions, but when she encounters Wegler, she tells him that Tony is moving back in. Chris vents to Adriana about the favoritism Blundetto receives, but when Adriana suggests they start a new life somewhere, Chris insists he is with Tony for life. He and Blundetto are sent to their uncle's farm to dispose of bodies buried there, and the two bond. Tony shows up to oversee the last of the job, and the Tonys mock Chris's sobriety, leaving him to drive home in tears.

The Leotardos kill Garepe. Valentina La Paz is hospitalized with severe burns after trying to cook for Tony, and he goes to stay at the Plaza Hotel for the night. He learns of Garepe's death and tries to contact Blundetto, who ignores him. Tony falls asleep and dreams of the deceased people in his life. He has therapy with Gloria Trillo and is driven by his father to "the job." Tony and Carmela have dinner with Meadow, Finn, and Finn's parents, Vin Makazian and Annette Bening. Blundetto kills Ph

The body of a drug dealer is traced to the Crazy Horse, and surveillance footage reveals to the FBI that Adriana disposed of evidence from the murder. She convinces them that Chris can be made into an informant, but he nearly kills her when she admits the truth to him. He eventually agrees to start a new life with her, but hesitates when he notices an unhappy couple resembling them at a gas station. Tony tells Adriana that Chris attempted suicide and that Silvio will take her to the hospital, bu

Phil begins hunting Chris, and Tony insists to his men that he is protecting Blundetto like he would any of them, but dissent begins to grow amongst them after Phil brutalizes soldier Benny Fazio. Tony goes to Junior for help, but he is too dazed to give him advice. Both Melfi and Silvio warn him that he is protecting Blundetto out of guilt and pride, and he discovers the painting of him and Pie-O-My that Paulie had redone when he goes to visit him. Tony is perplexed and annoyed by it, but Pauli