This is a turning point for Heidi. Going out after dark with only her learners permit was the line she crosses that forever sets her on the road she follows for the rest of the series.
@@lighthousexiii2391 Absolutely. I often wondered what became of her. A disgrace that her storyline was never properly developed. Chase made a big mistake there. Totally ruined the rest of the series for me.
@@colcocon6021 It's pretty obvious Heidi is Dr Melfi's daughter. Melfi got pregant at 18 and dropped out of college to have the baby. This, of course, was Heidi who grew up as a troubled teen. Unconsciously, Heidi knew what she was doing that night when she went out after dark as a learner driver. Her intention was to kill Tony Soprano. This symbolised her wish to save her mother from Tony, but also deliver an ironic rebuke to Melfi for her juvenile attraction to the 'bad boy' . In this way, Heidi wanted to put one over the mother who abandoned her, while perhaps laying seeds for some future reconciliation.
@@lighthousexiii2391 I was thinking exactly the same thing, man. I just needed someone to put it into words for me. You, sir, are a damn Poet. Suddenly I feel so much better, and not so alone!
No no no. I'm not a Sopranos fan, but he was clear with his arts and crafts. (Amping up Pink Floyd) But he attracted traitors. Even that was not the final straw... In this very scene he is about to kill 2 teenagers... He is so doped out, he can't realise his baby is not in the safety seat. He almost kills Tony. He is effed up / first of his worries is losing driving license.
As a fellow regard I was thinking between Tony’s non varsity hands AND Chris’ naturally oversized canopy that Chris would survive. Shame. Practically a kid.
The look of pure evil and cold-bloodedness on Tony’s face when he’s snuffing Christopher out... a man that he loved like a son throughout the whole show just reminds us as an audience that we had been rooting for a menacing villain the entire time. Absolutely brilliant.
Most important the lyrics, “The child is grown, the dream is gone!” And the way Tony looked at Chrissy encapsulates his feelings towards Chrissy. Whatever dreams and hopes Tony had for Chrissy are gone.
@@rcr-zt4of So they're psychopaths and sociopaths with multiple kills in succession ... i.e .. serial killers. That's still technically what they are, gangsters/mafioso or not.
@@batmanwhoblazes1349 Incorrect. The psychology of serial killers is different vs a mafioso with multiple kills. Serial killers get a psychological payoff for killing someone. Psychopaths and sociopaths can kill someone but have no emotion tied to it. Two completely different things.
the terms 'serial killing' and 'serial killer' can still be used and can still apply to killers who aren't paper-cut psycho/sociopaths who get satisfaction from kills. Once you hit 2-3 or more; you are a serial killer. Look it up.@@rcr-zt4of
Fun fact about this scene it was improvised. Michael Imperioli really crashes the car and James Gandolfini smothers him. David Chase loved it so much he decided to keep it in.
@@zara6854 Exactly. Tony at this point Chris was no longer an Ally , loved or loyal to Tony. It was the perfect opportunity to make it all come together as an accident but get rid of his huge problem. Chris!
So many people watching this scene thinking Tony did the right thing fail to realize that Tony turned Christopher into this person. He is unwilling/unable to change who he is, so anytime he sees someone actually bettering themselves he undermines it. Chris wasn’t a saint but he was actively sabotaged by his father figure and all his friends
@@ashleyprice9139 Maybe not for H, but they all had horrible self-destructive habits. And what happened when Chris was successfully sober? All of his “friends” sidelined him and encouraged him to jump off the wagon. Like I said, Chris isn’t a saint, but he may be the only person in the show who actively tries to be a better person a few times
@peeeeeeemp the whole thing is a business to these people, and Christopher was a ticking time bomb he was about to spill everything to the screen writer. And everyone in that group mentioned it that these types of people are not trustworthy. Had it not been for Christopher's connection to tony, he would've been killed off sooner.
@@peeeeeeemp like how he killed that waiter just because he got offended? Or when he shot that dude in the foot in the bakery? He didn't even try to escape certain situation without violence, random encounters that could have been avoided, but he needs to show how dangerous he is and that happens more than once, nobody in this show tries too much to be a good person, all of them are garbage human beings, without Meadow and AJ
It was spoiled for me that Tony would wind up killing Chris before I watched the show but I had no idea how he would do it. I was expecting some big emotional climax where Chris would come after Tony and he'd kill him in a shoot out or something like that but no, he just has this moment where his disappointment of him comes to a head and he kills him quietly out of opportunity. Even the way he does it seems kind of gentle. Made it more disturbing in all honesty
Same here, I thought his ws going to be the last death in an elaborate setup, all I knew was the thumbnail of this video, when I got to this scene and started recognizing the imagery I freaked me out.
@@Jundullah1427 Tony is angry that Chris is getting high again. Even driving himself and Tony while under the influence without a second thought. After the accident, he sees a tree branch impaled through the booster seat in the back, reminding Tony that if Chris's daughter had been in the car, she would have been killed. This sends Tony into a quiet rage and he decides to kill Chris. Chris also established himself as a liability before going to rehab previously in the series. Even going as far as pulling a gun on Tony. He's erratic, unpredictable and dangerous like most addicts. The tragedy being here that Tony never supported Chris's sobriety, which helped lead to his relapse. Tony helped send Chris into this state
Mah the truth is the actor was leaving the show And they had come up with some bs cuz it was planed to have more ep season 6 then where Christian died It’s shity writing not gana lie Had to make something up It was always planed for him to die but not like this It’s even obvious that they yust pulled this out of nowhere
definitley the darkest scene in the whole show, imagine what chris musta been thinking when the person he sold his soul for just suffocate him without hesitation.
Yes he was nodding on smack whilst losing lots of blood he wouldn't of known wtf was happening just he didn't wake up this time. That's what happens when you pass out on gear if you don't overdose you just wake up with not much memory of actually falling asleep, when you nod you are in and out like when your tired and your head drops then you wake up like Chris was doing and also your legs give way but you wake up again before you fall he was literally in the stage of nodding off and not waking up anyway and that's when you forget to breath as your body doesn't feel the CO2 building up and you don't ha e the breathing reflex anymore hence you die.......in this scene Chris wouldn't of actually felt like he was suffocating if it was real life lol
It’s weird how many people that watched this show don’t seem to get that they’re not supposed to be good guys and their actions are typically extremely selfish 😂
Those people get that Tony is bad guy BUT even he is not all bad, he cares about his family including Christopher. And they show this constantly throughout the series, despite his addiction, insubordination and advice from his uncle. Are you a kid ? to expect people must only like the good guy, why are you even watched a show about gangster
I believe that us, the viewers are exactly like Melfi, we know clearly that Tony is a sociopath however many times we actually get fooled by him, we want to believe that he’s a good person deep inside, this way our sympathy wouldn’t sound so disturbing
@@user-fh4zi7po7i yeah this show almost more than any other especially with the therapy scenes almost give some hope that tony might become a better person but deep down we all know he is a selfish evil asshole with no chance at redemption let alone desire for it
The way he looks back at the car seat...Tony knowing that Chris would've killed his own child in that crash, and that further fueling his anger and resentment towards him...such a good detail. Also how he mentions it as his funeral -- fixating on that detail to rationalize his own actions.
Tony wasn't killing Chris out of compassion. He was killing him because he was an inconvenience. Tony doesn't want to change, he almost *can't* change because of the hole he's dug himself into. We see that in his dream, he has absolutely no remorse, and we see his lack of empathy, remorse, or any kind of strong emotion besides adrenaline and relief. Tony's entire shtick in the series has been his need to justify his lifestyle and choices. He does absolutely nothing to better himself, he only seeks comfort instead of truth. Tony looking emotionlessly at that car seat isn't a redeeming moment, it's a chilling reminder that we're watching the villain.
Oh no yeah I don’t see this as a redeeming moment or anything like that for Tony at all. I just noticed a common theme throughout the series is Tony weaponizing the brutality other people have inflicted on others to justify his own brutality and cruelty. We can see how his sensitivity towards animals influences (among other things) him killing Ralph, or at least he fixates on it to justify it to himself. He says to Ralph “she was a beautiful, innocent creature.” The innocence of animals, children, etc etc rationalizes his violence in his own mind. It’s how he displaces his own culpability.
I love how this scene *shows* Tony's thought process. First, he notices Chris is high and is like, "This moron's at it again." Then, he feels indifferent about it. Then, he looks at Chris and thinks, "Is this because of me? Did I push you to this?" Then he decides to engage in some small talk, maybe in an attempt to reach out to Chris. Then the car crashes and that all goes out the window.
Best way to describe it You are right tho, Tony still stayed calm even so he clearly didn't liked the fact he was drugged again and even still talked to him like damn what if
Yep. Chris was becoming more independent, Tony was paranoid about Chris' film, mocked his sobriety. The main reason Chris slipped was BECAUSE of Tony. It shows how fucked the rationalization was and it's probably accurate for a sociopath
I think you give Tony's empathy too much credit. He doesn't feel guilty about leading Chrissy to this. He just realised that he was a liability then an opportunity presented itself.
@@paradoxicaljoy4923 What sort of head ass logic are you attempting to use? He's not a mind reader the only way you can convey a message over the internet IS WITH A COMMENT MORON
I love how the song represents Tony's feelings towards Christopher now, "The child has grown, the dream is gone." His years of grooming Christopher to be the one to take over once Tony's gone has been completely ruined. Christopher is drugged out mess who can't stand Tony anymore, so Tony does the only thing he knows, get rid of another problem for his business.
I like the idea that comfortably numb is a double entendre. Christopher is high as hell, but Tony's numb to Christopher too. A phenomenal song and scene.
@@Nostalgia_Addict just the way he looks at him before the accident. It's the same look he gives Paulie when he's thinking about whacking him, as Paulie's in the hotel room watching an old tv show and laughing. By this point, Tony just seems to brew contempt and disgust for everything around him.
It wasnt the drugs. Christopher was no longer the blind robot that Tony thought he'd always be. One of their last conversations that was at that barbeque showed this. Tony no longer saw any use in Christopher any more. Christopher was sober for a pretty long while near the end there and they continued to grow apart. His sobriety helped him see the BS life he was living and the dead end he was heading toward.
@@christiansoldier77 But to maintain his alibi, Tony would have had to ask for help as if Christopher's life was in danger or as if he irrationally believed he could still be saved.
@@Ratchet2431 He doesn't need to pretend that Chris was alive. "We crashed, when I came to consciousness he was unresponsive. I got out of the car, checked on him and found that he wasn't breathing. Then I called 911".
This was evil. The whole "Chris could've killed his daughter" shit was his mental excuse. The episode right before Chris was mocked by Tony about his sobriety, he (unlike Paulie) was truly loyal AND grew up with him, Tony was paranoid about the revenge fantasy in Chris's film and that he was pulling away. Tony became more evil with each bad deed and age.
They showed the car seat like that for a reason. Tony had a very soft feeling toward kids and animals. During the intervention scene, Tony says that he could suffocate Chris when he found out he accidentally killed Adriana's dog. In this scene he finds out that Chris relapsed and could easily be driving high with his daughter in the car. Then there's his dream sequence with Melfi later that his biggest fear was Chris eventually flipping cause weak drug addicts are the easiest ones to flip. So it was a mixture of things. But honestly Chris was a goner anyways. Tony suffocating him was the more humane thing to do in that situation instead of just having him choke on his blood and die slowly.
@@NothingToPointOut24 “Tony had a very soft feeling towards kids” give me a fuckin break. If you truly believe the baby’s crushed seat was Tony’s justification for killing Chrissy you gotta rewatch the show from S1E1. Tony is the biggest hypocrite in the show there is and he uses the “children and animals” facade as a way to hide his heinous actions. We literally see it when he’s bullshitting Carmela and Melfi about Chrissy’s “unfortunate death”. And the most humane thing Tony could have done was save Chrissy’s fuckin life, not snuff him out 💀.
@@al6225 You like seeing things that arent there I guess. Tony's reason for killing Chris (what he dreams with Melfi) and his justification for it (the car seat) are two different things completely. I dont think I said anything against that. And Chris was asking for Tony to call him a taxi. You think he was going to be revived from CPR? Ha
0:57 The disappointment on Tony's face while he realizes how stoned Chris is, mixed with the "Comfortably Numb" verses, really makes it one of the best shots in the entire series.
Why was comfortably numb played by a cover band? That was not Pink Floyd. Was the budget for the show, so low that they could not use Floyd's version of the song, because it was too expensive? Not cool. It should have been the Floyd version.
It's obvious, but always important to remember that Tony is a sociopath. Killing Chris is the most expedient thing to do, given the liability he's become. But if Tony can tell himself the guy's also endangering his child (multiple glances at the car seat,) it gives him the final justification to act without remorse.
Most likely he isn’t fully conscious to even realize what’s happening or he thinks he is having a nightmare. At least that’s how I always viewed this scene
Killing Christopher after seeing the destroyed car seat is no different than killing Ralphie for what Tony believes is the death of Pie O My. It's the sentimentality of the sociopath for small children and animals (who cannot talk back) mentioned in the paper that Melfi reads at Elliott's recommendation and that she sees with disgust in Tony, leading her to terminate the relationship.
I never bought that that study truly applies to Tony, and it's one thing for Melfi to be fooled by it, but the audience is privy to how he lives his life and thinks. Tony thought he was killing Ralphie for his horse, but it was really for Tracee, who he saw as a "beautiful innocent creature." There's a great scene where Tony is looking admiringly at Meadow, and a shot of Tracee flashes in his mind, proving to the audience that Tony is capable of genuine empathy and emotional depth- so much so that he compares his own flesh and blood to a lowly whore. Tony has too many moments of palpable humanity for anyone to say his empathy is shallow and exclusive to animals/babies. I was always mostly on Tony's side until his murder of Chris. I could never wrap my head around how Tony could possibly sink so low until I read an amazing theory ("Tony's Vicarious Patricide") that explains how Tony projected his repressed feelings of hatred towards his father onto Christopher- a father failing to protect his child just as Tony deep down feels his father failed to protect him. This would parallel Ralph's murder in that while Tony believes he is killing in the name of an innocent animal/baby, really it's for deeper reasons he cannot see because of how mob life has developed and warped his thinking. In Ralph's case, it's to avenge a daughter figure, and in Chrissy's case, it's to revenge himself against his own father. The tragedy of Tony isn't that he has an inherently evil heart, it's that his heart wasn't strong enough to overcome the evil he was exposed to all of his life.
How many times Tony clean his mess ? How many times Tony told him to stop using drugs and movie industry? How many times Chrissy deliberately refused tony orders and mafia rules ? How many times Chrissy used the Adrianna card ? How many times Tony looked the other way cause of the nephew card ?
@ruvelf I have to disagree with that. Tony's mind focused on selective empathy directed at genuine purity. Tracee didn't fit the bill. She literally burned cigarettes on her infant son. She wasn't a good person and it's highly doubtful Tony thought much of her. The session with Melfi after he offs Ralph proves this. It was about the horse.
One of the many genius aspects of this scene was that they had us worrying about Paulie and Christopher through out the whole show. Everyone noticed the passive and clear aggression whenever these two would be around each other. Whether it's Paulie flaunting his authority to Christopher or Chris talking back in a bad manner to Paulie, there was always an issue between these two. Not to mention, when Chris crippled Little Paulie, which caused Paulie to ruined Chris' front yard. They had some level of hatred towards each other, and yeah Tony and Christopher had their ups and downs but it was never as intense as Paulie and Chris but in reality, the real threat was Tony, who was willing to do each and everything in his power to stop whoever is in the way of his business. We always worried about what would Paulie do to Christopher and vice versa but we never saw Tony doing such a thing to someone he considered family. Sublime writing and acting, this show was way ahead of it's time. Definitely the greatest show of all time.
I used to hate the finale of this series, but I was just watching all the cold blooded moments from Tony and THAT ending was a merciful one. Just sudden darkness. He didn't see his family crying or in despair. It was just a sudden turning off of lights. Tony Soprano was an evil man and deserved his fate.
This is the worst killing of all, out of the entire six seasons, bar none. If we didn't know what we know, and from an outsiders perspective, it might almost seem like a kindness, but the way Tony snuffed away Christopher's life, like squashing a bug, whilst staring into his eyes, glaring in fury and disgust, chills me to the bone. The realisation in Christopher's eyes, and, oh my God, those sad, pathetic noises as he dies! If nothing else persuaded us that Tony was beyond redemption to this point, this single brief execution left us in no doubt. No sadness, no reluctance, no regret, just fury that once again, HE had been left down. Imagine been married to this man. Carmela may have no idea how many of their so called loved ones have died at his hands, but if she does, then she is no better than him, as she might as well be married to the Devil himself. Superlative acting from both parties, but I felt nauseous after watching this.
I agree out of all the deaths in the show this was definitely the most sad and tragic as Chrissy and Tony both had a very close relationship once, and to see someone you were once close to, kill you in cold-blood makes it very impactful to me.
@@parapoliticos52imagine getting this bent out of shape that an actor doesn’t share your politics lmao. You’re smoking some serious chronic if you don’t think Imperioli did an amazing job as Chrissy.
I watched this show when I was 14, now that I'm 25 I'm watching it again and knowing that Christopher was going to die made the show so much better. Espically as a younger man myself, it's extremely hard to watch Christopher have the world in his hands but fail over and over, and be given chance after chance. What a real character.
it's the same exact thing for Tony. Tony failed in the end because his ego and impulsiveness that by the end of the series he had a bunch of weak yes men rather than a true group.
"Maybe we should go back Heidi!" "Kennedy, I'm on my learner's permit after dark." "Heidi, why do we keep addressing each other by name?" "Kennedy, how else are people going to understand the title of this episode?"
@@MichaelTreder Ha! You’re right! I wonder what she’s known for, besides being in ‘Up in the Air’ with Vera Farmiga (ha! Plumb role in ‘The Departed’, I literally just realized the connection!) and Clooney. Does anyone else know something significant that’s she’s been in? Thanks for any replies! Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚✌🏼 Stay safe mate🌎🙏🏼
@@katherinea.williams3044 the Twlight series, the Trolls movies, the Pitch Perfect series, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Into the Woods, The Accountant which might be getting a sequel
This scene set a new standard because back when this aired most people would assume that Christopher is most likely gonna end up killing Tony by the end of the show, but David chase flipped it on its head and let Tony take care of Christopher before he could take care of him and that is freaking genius In a typical crime drama a character like Christopher would end up killing someone like Tony and take his place as the new boss which would be fine, but the sopranos ain’t no typical crime drama and thus why I think this is one of the greatest moments in television history
I would have liked to see that flushed out more. Not necessarily the standard thing where Chrissy kills Tony and takes over. In sopranos style, Tony would be betrayed badly, all signs would point to Chrissy as the betrayer, Tony would kill him then later discover knew evidence that Chrissy was innocent and someone else betrayed him and Tony is grief stricken having killed Chrissy under false pretenses
As the film completely makes it even more clear, Tony killed Chris out of his sociopathic drive to survive at all cost. And saw this as an opportunity to finally get rid of a weak link in his life. It makes it all the more clear that Tony truly doesn't care how many people he will hurt or kill to survive. Thanks to his upbringing and the life his role models led.
@@MM-iy7gz Yeah the truck that about smashed into them might have crashed, there for turn around and go look to see if they did crash and if so, lose their permit when they did nothing wrong because the guy driving the big ass truck was high. Or just keep driving and assume the jackass in the truck is fine and dont lose your permit. It isnt a generational thing to weigh the odds, most people in the same circumstances no matter the time period wouldnt of turned around.
That mindset from the teen driver was reflective of Chris’ whole being. Don’t matter if the world collapses and every one dies, as long as I don’t get caught dirty, I’m safe.
The night this aired I completely became overwhelmed with it all. You gotta understand that for fans who watched the series from the beginning and knew that this season was the last one, every Sunday night was like, "Well, who's getting whacked tonight?" Scenes with Gandolfini and Imperioli featured were always my favourite...seeing 'Chrissy' go out by Tony's hand was brutal. My wife was just as big of a fan and she said to me a few times "it's just a show", lol. This scene wrecked me...
“The child is grown. The dream is gone.” Tony looks at Christopher suspiciously like he has a thousand times. He knows Christopher is high, and he knows Christopher is no longer his nephew and protégé. It doesn’t even hurt Tony anymore to see Christopher like that. He just wants to kill him. Then the car crashes. Tony is sort of knocked out of his sociopathic line of thought. Then Christopher confesses and Tony finishes it.
@@davemoss9505 it’s crazy. In a show filled with awesome musical moments, this is the one that hit the hardest for me. I can’t think of any other song they used that had as much lyrical depth in the context of the scene they used it in
@@davemoss9505 and like, it’s weird how he literally kills Chris in this scene, but this is also one of the “happier” moments between them in the last few seasons. They’re not fighting, they’re not arguing. There’s no drama. Like OP said, it no longer hurts to see Chris like this. They’ve both just accepted their lives for what they are & snuffing Chrissy out is an act of compassion just as much as it is an act of cruelty. Even if Tony wasn’t consciously justifying it as compassion, he did put Chris out of his misery, which is basically the best case scenario for Chris at that point
If you guys see the episode Stage 5, a few episodes prior, Tony starts to believe that Christopher hates Tony and would rather see him dead. Tony was always showing obvious favoritism towards Chris because deep down I feel like they both cared about each other. But once Tony started thinking Chris hated him, Tony started to resent Christopher and he became nothing but a nuisance. Then when it was revealed Chris relapsed, Tony felt he had an actual reason to kill him. He uses it as a defense but it's pretty obvious it was pent-up frustration and a feeling of betrayal.
This scene will always be incredibly disturbing. Tony was basically Chris's father and after everything they'd went through together it was so gut-wrenching to watch him do this.
Mercy killing. This dude was a danger to his child and himself and the operation that they all had going on, the family business. All cause he couldn't stop the drugs. Had his child been in the car, they'd be dead! That's how Tony justified it and that's my interpretation as well. Was it his place? No, but the mob makes it their business to take out anyone that could potentially be a threat like anyone that possible could snitch, being a junkie or being plain ol fake and unreliable. That's like their thing.....Tony has that mindset can't change him. He saw Chris as weak and he wasn't gonna help him forever. Also, mobsters HATE junkies so there's that!
Honestly I get why he did it. Dude was constantly on drugs, exposing not only himself to danger, but others. When Tony looks into the back seat and sees that car seat with the branch sticking into it, that's when he realized Chrissy is a massive liability and a danger to the family.
Christopher was my favorite character in The Sopranos, I wanted to see him succeed so bad, get through all the bullshit, jeez, with only 4 episodes left he died near the finish line.
@@flatmoontheory it's a sound but if you see his eyes it says I thought of you like a dad and you are killin me or you caught canopy with your small hands
It was revenge for cozzette. And a lot of other things. Heidi and Kennedy had there Learners Permit after dark and Chrissie didn’t. He just had to sit there and take it. It was amongst the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission, real drivers license shit.
I think Tony wanted to kill Christopher the moment he was told that Chris was messing with the real estate agent. There had always been this underlying turmoil over women between Tony and Chris. Christopher never got over the idea of Tony possibly messing with Adrianna. As soon as Tony kills Chris, he goes to Vegas to mess with one of Chris’s side pieces.
It's called a tension pneumothorax and I highly suggest learning how to use a chest decompressor. It is the one most preventable causes of death and no matter what there is no time for an ambulance to get there to do it. You have maybe a minute before you eventually choke to death on your own blood, or oxygen.
@Flying Hellfish Damn dude. A little more explaining and teaching maybe instead of berating, bullying, and name calling. Fucking internet slime. Sit down doctor. Go shit in your hat
The lighting at 3:55 on Tony’s face is why this show is so perfect. The look on his face too - it just says it all. His face is cut perfectly in half by the darkness. The symbolism of him showing his darker side to anyone when necessary is true showcase to the complexity and horrors of the sociopathic character that Tony was. What great acting by James Gandolfini. RIP.
@HidanVenom no offense but seems like he wasn't gonna make no way with his injuries! Seems like a lose/lose minus well put him outta his misery, rather have his uncle do him in or for him to undergo dying in a hospital on the stretcher or the gurney doesn't matter which, or if he was to survive he might have the pleasure of explaining to law enforcement the little accident on the road + losing his license. I mean that's my end of it/scenario.
@HidanVenom Hey it's like what do I know I never even seen the show, just heard of it but obviously you've heard of it know what I mean? So thanks anyway man.
@@cinematicstudios3418 Yeah you'd have to have watched the series to understand that there was no mercy in it, Tony had enough. On the episode he even tells his shrink its like a huge burden has been lifted off of him, hes happy hes dead
This scene is brilliant! In it, the foreshadowing of Tony killing Christopher happens as soon as he decides not to call 911. The 911 reference is important, because it is what you call when an emergency happens. Tony didn't do it, foreshadowing him killing Chrissy. Then when Tony starts suffocating Chrissy it foreshadows him dying. Really brilliant writing.
Road 35 Even if he did not kill him, he still would not make it. He had internal bleeding. He did his nephew a favor by suffocating him, instead of suffering before his death.
Road 35 he had been falling out of love with Chris for a while you really think Tony cared about Chris’s baby after what he said about carmela’s cousins baby to her in the previous episode? Tony Jared Chris and was disgusted with him which justifies killing him
I find this to be one of the most tragic and disturbing sequences in television, hell any media, history. Having been a former addict myself…I’ve been there. Trying to avoid conversation…turning up the radio, trying to appear normal when your absolutely spun. And he’s focusing so hard on that, that he crashes. And having been in a serious wreck as well, that feeling as tony and Chris are both sitting there, obviously conscious but super dazed and concussed, adrenaline just *coursing* through the body. And when tony tries to move only to groan in pain, and the way chris, probably severely injured, asks for help. And tony, even in his state, reassures him that he’s coming over on that side to help. But realizing Chris isn’t asking for that kind of help…he’s asking for tony to bail him out of this, so he won’t lose his license. And tony, realizing this happened because Chris is high, and the culmination of him looking back and seeing the car seat skewered by a branch…ugh. He walks over to Chris and tries to convince himself to just dial 911. And we see Chris gurgle out blood, and tony sees how hurt he really is… he realizes the truth…Chris is a time bomb. And addicted and the mob don’t mix, and you see tony come around to understanding that he needs to alleviate this problem. And so he does. Like putting down a rabid dog that you once loved. And the intimate, cruel, emotionless way he snuffs out chris(two fingers punching his nose shut, something so small and simple but nonetheless lethal). It’s haunting
Other comments here are calling Tony cruel but I don't believe his intentions were cruel. Chris hit a new bottom and Tony could no longer allow him to go on living like that. He put him out of his and everybody else's misery
Tony was a ticking timb bomb and got everybody killed because it was convenient for him, not because he was a saint or doing community service. I have a feeling you didn't Watch the show. Tony raised a drug addict. Tony mocked Christopher for being SOBER after REHABILITATION. Not to mention Tony cheating on Christopher's girlfriend and ordering her murder too. You missing a whole lot of the story boy.
Possibly but yes he needed that car accident to get away with killing him. Tony put a lot of time and energy into him to get him through the ranks and possibly groom him to be the next boss. However, drugs got in the way of that and became a liability. It was only after he saw the destroyed baby seat that he killed him. That's why he stopped dialing 911 before choking him. Which he was fortunate that he couldn't breathe through his mouth. As we learned later on his injuries were survivable and couldn't understand how he died.
The headlights passing over the road as he starts to plug Chrissy’s nose mirror the beacon from when Tony was in a coma, inviting him back to life. A sign: “snap out of it.” He ignores it here, too. Haunting when you think about it.
@@holetohell4140 They were but it's not like they didn't have their benefits, especially Ralphie who honestly wasn't too much of a liability after he beat Tracee to death cause he seemingly 'calmed down' quite a bit *cause he isn't constantly coked up*, and when Justin took that arrow I think Ralphie would've 'calmed down' even more so. But he was bringing in fuckin dump trucks of money through construction and the Esplenade-way more than any of the other Captains which is how Vito becomes a top earner via taking over Ralph's crew and business interests-so to kill the guy over a horse was just extremely short sighted. IMO Tony ultimately hated & killed Ralph cause he reminds Tony of himself, in regards to his rage and anger and kneecap-busting personality *which Tony partly hates himself for, he hates he's like that*; they grew up together and basically got into 'this thing of ours' together, yet Tony fuckin despises him from the very moment Ralph is back from Miami-up until his death 🤷 Chris on the other hand was a big liability and nowhere near a big enough earner to justify it, I honestly think he'd of ended up flipping to 'write movies' or X bullshit dream *which he seriously threatened to do multiple times over the show*, he could've ended up as street boss with Tony in-what used to be-Junior's position, but he flushed it all down the drain.. Alright that's enough pseudo-intellectual Sopranos analysis for the morning.
When I first saw this scene 15 years ago, I was pretty shocked. But after rewatching the show recently I’m thinking back to the meeting with uncle junior where junior said an addict is at risk of flipping so needs to be eliminated but Tony kept him around because he had a soft spot for him and more importantly, Chris had a role to play in Tony’s retirement. But now their relationship is in ruins so Tony saw an opportunity to do what junior suggested long time ago. Livia would have been proud.
Poetic. It was all an accident. The familial relationship between the two of them. Tony picking Chris as his succesor. Chris getting hooked on the drugs. Him getting in the driver's seat and Tony in the passenger's (allegorical of Tony being there as Chris drove his life into the ground, moment by moment). It was all one big accident.
DICKIE MOLTISANTI: I got myself a son! TONY: Hi Christopher! Hello! (Baby Chris starts crying) TONY: It's like I scare him or something? OLD LADY: Some babies when they come into the world, know all kinds of things from the other side.
Did you see that tree 🌳 branch through the car seat. Christopher was a grown man that made some decisions. That newborn has a whole life in front of him.
@@kaycontent9597 I came here to try and see the empty Toblerone wrapper. Was it in the baby seat as well. Seen this scene before but missed it then and I think I've missed it here again?
The power in so many of these scenes is remarkable..The sheer quality of the writing and the incredible acting. This was a reminder of how dark Tony really was despite all the humour. Tony and Chris are two of the best gangsters ever written with two of the very finest performances. My heart broke for Moltisanti in this scene.
I saw a comment someone wrote, it said that the reason why Tony looks back at the carseat, he's convincing himself this is for the best for his baby and wife. Just so he can have somewhat a clear conscious and justification. In the end, it's not for his baby, but because Chris is gonna fuck shit up even more due to him being too far gone with his heroin addiction and that's not good for business.
I really see it as a kindness if nothing else . Not even going in depth as to why Chris should’ve been killed before this but just on the surface he wasn’t gonna make it anyway
Exactly, and even here...Tony would never be able to bring himself to initiate a kill against Chris, but it is much easier to just move a death along and speed it up or help it happen when already in a really bad situation such as a deadly accident.
I think he turned the volume up because he didn't want to talk to Tony, which reminded tony that Chris hates him, i mean c'mon it was rude as fuck. Also the accident, he almost killed him by pretending to be soper and could kill his child if he wasn't with Tony, liability asfuck
My take is Tony had come to the realization that Christopher was high just before he clipped the oncoming car, I wonder if Tony would have killed him had they not been in the accident.
What's really dark here is that Chris would have probably died anyways. With those injuries, enough internal bleeding to make him cough up cupfuls of blood, and his lungs struggling to breathe because his airways are being filled with fluid, he was a cooked goose regardless, so Tony really didn't need to kill him here, but he did because he wanted to. He could have let Chris choke to desth on his own blood and not had anything to do with his demise, but he had so much disappointment and anger that even with death inevitable, he still wanted to be the one who put Christopher down, and it's the final proof in the show that Tony is pure evil. He's so irredeemably evil that even when someone is going to die regardless he will still personally involve himself in their cause of death, all because he is a sadistic sociopath with no pause for concern about others. All he needs are reasons (and not even good ones) to justify someone's death, and he'll kill them without a second thought. That's the kind of monster he's been the entire series, and it's brilliant that David Chase reminded audiences of that side of Tony with this horrific scene showcasing his violent depravity.
I see these comments, and im disappointed. Siding with tony after this episode was incompatible. If i had a slight want of him surviving was for Meadow and AJ, for anything else I'm glad they put the fat dog to sleep.
@@anoobis745 he literally looked at the fucking seat BEFORE he even left his own seat... the second pan to the baby seat is for people like you, in case you needed help understanding why he did that. I guess they should have had him look at that seat THREE TIMEs for you.
When he said that just proves that Tony or many of the others truly forgot that the family is supposed to take care of your family financially. That’s why people rat now because that is something no one does anymore
The thing is, Christopher couldn't be found driving when on drugs. Tony couldn't risk Christopher dying when Tony pretends he was driving, because then it's murder. But I think Tony also saw the opportunity to get rid of somebody who was too much trouble.
