The Sopranos: Season 6

Sixteen months later, a DiMeo made man and FBI informant, Eugene Pontecorvo, tries to get permission from either Tony or the FBI to retire to Florida with his family, but he is denied. With his relationship with his family fraying, he commits suicide. Carmela's spec house has a stop order placed on it because of shoddy wood used by Hugh DeAngelis. Hesh Rabkin's son-in-law is brutalized by Lupertazzi men. Unable to get in contact with Phil, the acting boss, Tony is forced to go through an impriso

Tony awakens in a California hotel room, where he notices a light flashing in the distance. He realizes he has the belongings of a salesman named "Kevin Finnerty", who looks exactly like him. While looking for his items, Tony has dinner with a group and alludes to having a midlife crisis. As a woman from the group refuses to have sex with him because he is married, a helicopter spotlight hovers over them. Tony, actually in an induced coma after surviving being shot, rips out his breathing tube a

Paulie kills two drug dealers and takes a massive score from them, but Silvio, the acting boss, divides it between the crew in a way that frustrates them. Carmela tells A.J. that he is a burden after discovering what he said to the reporter, and admits to Melfi that while she does not feel guilt over Tony's work anymore, she does for mothering children with a criminal. Chris's interest in the movie industry resurfaces and he forces J.T. Dolan to write a mob-slasher film in exchange for paying of

A recovering Tony befriends two other patients, a rapper and a physicist. He admits to the physicist that while in the coma, he realized that everyone is part of "something bigger." As he is being discharged, a paramedic he accused of stealing from him tries to pay him back, but Tony waives his debt. Outside for the first time since the shooting, he declares that "from now on, every day is a gift." Bobby overhears the rapper's friend wishing for similar notoriety and agrees to non-fatally shoot

Johnny is granted temporary release to attend his daughter's wedding, where he asks Tony to kill Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio, who may cause another power struggle. Johnny is escorted away from the venue before he can see the full ceremony, and he cries in front of the guests, leading Phil to voice his distaste for the supposed loss of masculinity. Junior is transferred to a private psychiatric facility as he awaits trial for the shooting. Vito is spotted by Lupertazzi men in a gay club and he g

Chris is told by a man in his addiction recovery group about Vito being spotted in the club. Tony admits to Melfi that while he has a religious objection to homosexuality, Vito is important to him and that, like himself, he deserves a second chance. After learning from Finn DeTrolio that Vito was fellating a man, Tony's crew is left disgusted and some members demand his death. Meadow, working as an intern for a law firm that specializes in white collar crime, argues with Finn about the treatment

Artie confronts Tony after learning that he ate at a rival restaurant, but ignores his suggestions to improve Nuovo Vesuvio's declining quality. American Express stops doing business with him after Benny Fazio and a hostess he has been having an affair with run a credit card scam on Artie's customers, so he fires her and beats up Benny. Tony forces them to make peace and has Benny have dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, but Artie references Benny's affair in front of his wife and Benny forces his hand int

Despite his parents offering him work, A.J. spends his time sitting around the house or in nightclubs. He takes a knife to Junior's facility, but drops it when Junior, mistaking him for Tony, begs him to take him home. He is arrested, Tony is forced to bail him out, and A.J. insists that he was trying to avenge Tony like in The Godfather. A friend asks A.J. to get Tony to help with a financial dispute, and he has a panic attack. Vito finds himself taken with local chef Jim Witowski and they kiss

Chris marries his girlfriend after learning that she is pregnant. While driving back from a business trip, he and Tony steal expensive wine from bikers who are robbing a liquor store. Chris breaks his sobriety when he and Tony toast his marriage with the wine, and they reminisce about their bond, as well as the day Chris gave up Adriana. Paulie refuses to donate the requested amount for the Feast of Elzéar of Sabran to the church. Chris spends the first night of the festival on heroin. The next

Vito finds himself bored with everyday work. He steals Jim's car and leaves, only to crash into another car. When the owner refuses to take cash and goes to call the police, Vito kills him. After Bobby's eye is badly injured while making collections, Tony admits to Melfi that he treats him and Janice unfairly because of resentments he carries from their childhood, and Melfi points out that Janice may remind him of Livia. Knowing that a plea deal with the FBI would result in losing most of his as

Carmela discovers that A.J. has been fired from his job. Tony admits to Melfi that he wants to hit A.J., and she points out that Carmela protects A.J. as he wishes Livia protected him. He tries to speak civilly to A.J. about getting him a job, but smashes the windshield of his car when he complains. Vito meets with Tony and asks to return to the family, but Tony's men disapprove, and Phil, particularly hateful because he is related to Vito by marriage, demands his death. Vito returns to his fami

Tony has Benny blow up Phil's wire room. Little Carmine hosts a sitdown to try and negotiate peace, but Phil storms out when he brings up Billy Leotardo. Suspecting Tony's role in Gamiello's disappearance, Phil begins plotting a revenge hit, only to have a heart attack. Tony visits Phil in the hospital, telling him about what he learned in his coma and encouraging him to instead focus on family, which moves him. Tony tries to seduce the realtor, unaware that she is seeing Chris. Having met in hi

Eight months later, Phil returns from recovery and declares intent to enjoy life with his family. The gun Tony dropped is found on a drug user. He and Carmela travel to Bobby and Janice's upstate New York cabin to celebrate his birthday, where Bobby gifts him a customized assault rifle. He mentions the possibility of promoting Bobby, who has never killed before because his father wanted to keep him out of the mob. The four spend the night playing drunken Monopoly, but when Janice tells a humilia

Cleaver premieres, and everyone but Tony seems to notice the parallels between the film and his, Chris, and Adriana's relationship. After Carmela points this out to him and confronts Chris, Chris forces Dolan to pretend as though he stole the plot from another film. Unconvinced, Tony tearfully admits his suspicion to Melfi that Chris hates him and Cleaver was his way of showing this. With Johnny dying of lung cancer in prison, Lupertazzi capo Faustino Santoro has Phil's successor killed at a din

The FBI discover the body of Tony's first murder, forcing him and Paulie to go to Miami and lay low. He takes a bridge loan out from Hesh to cover a series of lost bets, and learns that Jackie Aprile is being blamed for the murder. To celebrate, he takes Paulie out on a fishing boat, where he asks him if he told Johnny about Ralphie's joke. Increasingly annoyed with Paulie over the course of the trip, he considers killing him. Paulie has a nightmare upon returning home about Pussy, where he asks

As Tony continues to lose his bets, he offers to pay Hesh a vig despite him not charging interest for the loan. When Hesh visits Tony and his crew, Tony makes several Jewish jokes at his expense. Carmela sells the spec house despite feeling guilt over the wood's quality, and Tony demands a cut of the profit so he can bet it, but she refuses. His bet pays off, leaving him enraged at the money he could have made, and they violently argue. They later make up and Carmela admits her fear about the th

A.J. falls into a depression and his parents send him to a therapist. Tony has him spend time with Carlo's son, and A.J. helps him abduct and torture a debtor. Tony tells Melfi that he intended to quit therapy, but feels he has to stay now that A.J. is suffering due to his "rotten genes." Chris notices that Tony is talking to him less, and he points out that Chris never comes to the Bada Bing or Satriale's anymore, despite his insistence that the alcohol there make him anxious. Paulie's cousin s

Phil learns that the waste Tony has been sending to the sanitation business contains asbestos, and he demands an increased cut of profits if he is to take more. Chris drives erratically with Tony while not wearing a seatbelt and crashes, severely injuring himself. Chris tells Tony to call a taxi instead as he will not pass a drug test. Realizing he is using heroin again, Tony suffocates him. He dreams of admitting relief to Melfi at the weight Chris's death took off him, as well as his role in t

After reading the poem "The Second Coming", A.J. ties a cinder block to his ankle and jumps into his pool. The rope is too long to keep the block from drowning him but too short for him to escape. Tony finds and saves him, initially furious but trying to comfort A.J. after seeing how distressed he is. A guilty Carmela and Tony blame each other. In a therapy session with his parents, A.J. recounts upsetting memories of them going back to his childhood and mentions Livia's depressing words having

Silvio kills Carlo's cousin for trying to defect to the Lupertazzis. Phil orders Tony, Silvio and Bobby killed. The FBI warns Tony, and he orders a hit on Phil. In inpatient, A.J. notices his friend's ex-girlfriend and the two begin seeing each other after they are discharged. Janice tells Tony that Junior's savings can no longer pay for his facility and asks him to help, but he refuses. Melfi, at a dinner with her colleagues, hears about the study again, and she later reads it and realizes it a

Tony gives the FBI information on a pair of suspicious Muslim men who hang around the Bada Bing in exchange for Phil's general location on Long Island. Phil rejects peace and warns his underboss, Butchie DeConcini, that there will be consequences for failing to kill Tony. Butchie agrees to a truce with Tony in exchange for sanctioning Phil's death and paying Janice for Bobby's hit. Tony's men find Phil and kill him. A.J. announces his intent to join the army, but his parents convince him to work