Editor’s note: Here are some of the e-mails we received from readers, with suggestions for the Soprano’s season
plot.
Tony plays around.
Tony gets a sexually transmitted disease.
Tony makes up with Carmella.
Tony infects Carmella.
Carmella goes ballistic and agrees to turn Tony over to the Feds.
Tony has Carmella whacked.
R.J. Maddigan
Colorado Springs
My premise is that crime does not pay.
Tony makes it with his psychiaitrist. Carmela finds out and goes berserk (the final straw that breaks the camel’s back).
Carmela confronts the psychiatrist and kills her dead…. Tony finds out and confronts Carmela in their home. A fight ensues
and Tony accidentally kills her.
Their son witnesses the altercation, and he goes to the FBI, who makes a deal with Tony to turn state’s evidence on the mafia
in Jersey and New York and then go into the witness protection program in exchange for his testimony. Their son, who is very
distraught, “rats” on his father to Christopher and the other thugs, who then forcibly take Tony and his son for a ride on the
same boat that “Pussy” was shot, killed and disposed on.
As the boat makes its way out into the ocean, a brutal fight breaks out and Tony, his son and, Christopher go overboard. The
others drive the boat back to its dock and as they disembark, the FBI captures them all.
Tony and Carmella’s daughter, Meadow, who is now a lawyer, goes on to lead a normal, productive life.
P.S. I’m originally from the area where this show takes place…sometimes I think I’m hearing my old friends.
Carole & Stan Rachesky
The Bed and Breakfast on Mitchell Creek
Kill Tony, the bad guys should not win!
Linda Tassin
How about encasing their feet in concrete and tossing them into the east river.
Jim & linda Poole
Tony should be indicted and sentenced to life in prison. Carmella should go on welfare.
Such an ending will send the message that crime, violence and corruption do not pay.
Dan Vigil
Tony and Carmella finally get it together, and go into hiding in another state.
Joge333
With Tony’s tiring attitude towards his mob cronies (best exemplified in last year’s season finale – he didn’t even want to spend
time at Raymond’s birthday party), I think that in a situation where Tony had to protect his blood family, he would testify
against all of those guys to avoid harm coming to Carmela and the kids.
Tony would love to live like his Uncle Pat, up in the woods without a care in the world, surrounded by wildlife. And of course,
ducks would probably once again live in his pool.
Jeremiah Peck
Pennsburg, PA
This is how I’d like to see the Sopranos finale work out: Since Carmela can’t get a divorce, let’s get rid of Tony. Any rival gang
member would do to shoot him.
Then Carmela takes all the money she’s salted away over the years, leaving starter funds for Anthony Jr. and Meadow.
Anthony forms a boy band with his; Meadow changes her name and gets ever more involved with
pro bono legal work.
So Carmela is free, and leaves for Sicily where she’s reunited with Furio; they marry and open a small bistro. Silvio takes on
Anthony’s band as a favor; it becomes wildly successful under his management. Paulie, whose devotion to his old mother is
well-known, has a stroke and is sent to the same assisted-living place as his mom. They play Scrabble together every day;
they cheat regularly and have a high old time.
Uncle Junior dies singing, reaching for a high “C.” Bobby inherits all Junior’s legitimate money (there’s a lot more that’s
illegit); he takes his kids and Janice to live at The Shore (Janice will not let him say, “The Shaw” but he’s allowed everything
else; he’s happy at last).
Dr. Melfi enters rehab and emerges clean and even more attractive. During her alcoholic phase, her husband and son have
given up on her. She marries her shrink, who had a crush on her all the time.
Artie, chef and restaurant owner, goes to France to learn nouvelle cuisine. This is not popular with his regular clientele who
always liked his spaghetti with clam sauce as an appetizer. He files for bankruptcy, then enters the Witness Protection
Program to escape resentful diners.
His smart cookie of a wife opens her own catering business. Lots and lots of sauce on her spaghetti! I like the notion of the
many victimized women in the Sopranos finally coming into their own.
Jane Carpenter
Denver
After losing interest in school, A.J. decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and goes out on his own to pull a mob deal. This
goes horribly wrong and A.J. is shot and left for dead in an alley.
He comes so close to death that Tony vows that if his life was spared, he would become an advocate against crime and
support victims groups. He realized that if “the life” took a member of his family he could never live with himself and he would
be a worse parent than his mother, Olivia, was to his sisters and himself.
A.J. survives. The Soprano family leaves the Jersey area. A.J. goes on to college and becomes a high school football coach.
Meadow completes college, and marries. She pursues her law career. Carmella gets her real estate license and does quite
well. Uncle June passes away.
Barbara Mitchell
How should “The Sopranos” end? My first thought is that Tony must die.
After all the people who have lost their lives due to his “business practices,”it would be poetic justice. But this would be too
trite, too predictable.
Rather, I’d like to see Christopher lose his life, leaving his vacated “employment position” open for Tony Jr. to begin working
with this father. Obviously, Carmela would be upset, but this would provide much dramatic dialogue between Tony and her.
(Carmela will have reunited with Tony, having always been able to cope with his many transgressions.)
Meadow will marry a rival mobster’s son, frustrating the entire family, and then Tony Jr. will die at the hands of his
brother-in-law. The three remaining Sopranos are devasted by this.
Tony becomes remorseful for all of his past sins but kills his son-in-law before confessing his many immoral acts to their family
priest (the one Tony accused of playing “Name That Pope” with Carmela).
While totally repentant for his past, Tony cannot bring himself to turn himself in and face either death or lifelong
imprisonment.
Tony and Carmela sell the bulk of their materialistic possessions and donate the money to the Catholic Church. Jobless and
devoid of income, Tony, Carmela, and Meadow must figure out how to proceed with their lives.
What can they do? What skills do they possess? How will they survive?
They convert Tony’s mother’s house into an Italian restaurant and move into the second level. With Carmela’s amazing culinary
skills and Tony’s business acumen, they are hugely successful.
And Meadow? She provides entertainment with her sweet singing voice while also handling hostess duties.
And the name of the restaurant? “Tony’s” or “Soprano’s” would be too recognizable. How about “Emmy’s”?
Rebecca Kohlbecker
Parker
Impossible to say for sure what will happen … but it will surely involve disaster for Tony, probobly involving his son A.J. in some
fashion. Tony will be forced to choose between his two families, but we know he would choose A.J., Meadow and Carmela over
the mafia, if it came to that.
CAN”T WAIT!!
Michael C. Whalen
In the last season of “The Sopranos,” Tony should be caught “red-handed” by the F.B.I. The confront Tony with a video of his
criminal act and then tell him to go home. After he “swings in the wind” for a while, they contact him and ask him for a favor.
The favor is for him to get rid of people that they “suggest to him” and he has to make it look like a mob hit, i.e. drug dealer,
etc.
After a while, Tony figures out yjay he is getting rid of people who are all of Middle-Eastern extraction pr associated with them.
In a meeting with the F.B.I. he meets a “dark figure” and is told not to ask questions, just do as he’s told or he goes to jail.
They explain to him that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck. He realizes he has become an
assassin for the government.
Anyways, in the last show’s last scene, Tony goes into his office, sits in his chair and plays a disc in the television showing
the F.B.I. and the dark figure caught on tape. Tony leans back in his chair, lights a cigar and gives us his half-smile…
… fade out.
Ted Despos
I don’t have any ideas for the finale, but you might want to do an interview, I play Vito. My web site is www.joesoup.com.
Thanks.
Joe
Seems a bit too simple, but here, in 246 words, it is!
As much as it pains me to say it, first and foremost, I think Johnny “Sack” needs to whack Tony and Christopher — preferably
at the same time and place. This can either be done personally or he could order one of his crew to do the job.
There are reasons to do it!
Once they are gone, Carmela needs to move to Italy to find Furio. Meadow is certainly old enough to continue with college and
be fine without her mother, and A.J. needs to go with his mother to Italy to learn the “tricks of the trade.”
Poor “Junior” would either be remanded to prison or his health would finally take him upon hearing the news of Tony’sdeath.
Realizing that Tony is no longer a threat, as much as it will kill her, Janice and Bobby need to live their own lives and work on
those miserable children of his.
Dr. Melfi really didn’t see much of Tony in the next to last season, so she will learn of his death watching the news and have to
work with Dr. Kupferberg on her unresolved feelings — she’ll be sad, and oh, the regrets!
As for Tony’s crew, Silvio can legitimately run the Bada Bing or sign up with another crew. Paulie Walnuts is ready for
retirement and should head south.
That seems to wrap things up a little too neatly and seems final, but done correctly, it could go out with the usual Soprano’s
bravado!
Ha! Thanks!
Kim Phillips
Tony will probably get shot and survive this season, and since the end is in sight, more major characters will likely get killed
off. Funerals this season a’plenty!
But remember, these 12 episodes premiering March 12 are not the end. There are eight additional new episodes airing starting
next January. Shooting for those begin in June or July.
Thanks,
Don
www.sopranoslookalikes.com
Tony sits in his backyard following Meadow’s Godfather-esque wedding ceremony. He removes his tie, lights up a cigar, and
enjoys a quiet moment of reflection.
Then there is a rustling in the bushes. A mother duck appears with her ducklings and they make their way to the swimming
pool. Tony takes a deliberate puff from his cigar, exhales, and smiles. Content.
Fade to Black.
Scott Neubauer
Have Lucky Luciano raise up from the dead, kill all of the Sopranos and take his rightful place as the underworld (true
underworld) Godfather. It would open up a new opportunity to continue the series but at a new level of horror. LL could then
defend his turf with all of the current (past) underworld bosses. Or they could just have a big dinner served “family” style.
Or………………………..never mind.
Michael Melnick
I have a feeling it’s going to be quite dark. A sneaking suspicion I have is that Anthony Jr. is going to get in some trouble, and
possibly tragic trouble.
I think there is a sense of karma to the show. Tony has done some pretty terrible things over the years, and I don’t think that is
lost on David Chase.
At any rate, I can’t wait. It’s the best hour-long drama in television history.
We’ll see!
Tim
Chicago, IL
Here is my suggestion for how to “end” the Sopranos: have Tony’s daughter, Meadow, take over the “family business.” This
could then create a spinoff of the Sopranos.
Barry W
During Meadow’s Catholic marriage to a Homeland Security official, in a scene reminiscent of the original “Godfather,” on
Carmella’s orders, Tony and his crew are taken out, one by one in slow motion, at the Bada Bing, at the pizza parlor, and other
locations around Jersey.
Carmela begins her reign a la Al Pacino. In the closing scene, she is surrounded by her new consigliere, Lorraine
Bracco, and other loyal followers.
JJ tries to gain access to his mother but the door closes slowly on him as they wait to kiss the first Godmother’s hand…..
Joyce Jacques Singular
Denver, Colorado
Tony gets whacked and Meadow takes over as boss of the family, setting up a whole new series….
Kyle Kruger
I think for the finale, there should be a huge gang war between the New York and New Jersey families. Johnny Sack would feel
like he was set up by Tony when he was arrested.
In the meantime, Anthony Jr. has been paying his dues on the underground as a Soprano family member, but behind his father
and mother’s back. He’s getting more hardened and getting a whole lot of respect on the streets.
So in a finale battle between the NY and NJ families, Johnny Sack is killed. Tony and the family think they won the war, but
the next day, as Tony is heading to the Bada Bing, a lone gunman pulls up next to him at a stoplight and assassinates
him.
The death sends the whole family into disarray until Anthony Jr. rises and takes the place of his father as the boss of the New
Jersey family.
How’s that???
Quibian ‘Q’ Salazar-Moreno
Denver
Tony and family are put in a witness protection program and given jobs in a mortuary in rural Montana. Tony and Carmela
become Texas two-step champions. Ta Da!
M Wilson
Castle Rock
Tony dies in a hail of gun fire by the feds or maybe chris, and Chris takes over the family (spin off maybe to network TV or
cable like USA or FX). The whole family should get whacked except Chris and maybe Meadow.
Michael Orth
My predictions for the last season…
I think Tony will become ill or killed and Meadow will somehow be involved with taking over the business. Subtle hints
throughout the last few years suggest this to me.
I remember how she spoke to Fin last season and expressed her dissatisfaction with his interpretation of how things were. I
also remember her getting upset after Jackie Jr. was killed, and expressing her dissatisfaction in the way Jackie’s sister was
talking about “the family” with an outsider present in the room.
As far as who will be whacked this year, I see Christopher and possibly Paulie or Silvio sleeping with the fishes.
I see Carmela being a widow and not exploring any more affairs. She may even be grabbed up by the F.B.I.
I also think we will see Uncle Jr. die this year of cancer or another illness.
Tim Porco
Pittsburgh, PA
