| "Long Term Parking" | |||
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 64 |
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| Directed by | Tim Van Patten | ||
| Written by | Terence Winter | ||
| Cinematography by | Alik Sakharov | ||
| Production code | 512 | ||
| Original air date | May 23, 2004 | ||
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"Long Term Parking" is the sixty-fourth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the twelfth of the show's fifth season. It was written by Terence Winter, directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on May 23, 2004. The episode was photographed by Alik Sakharov, ASC (American Society of Cinematographers nomination for outstanding achievement in cinematography) [1]
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Following the murder of Billy Leotardo by Tony Blundetto, Little Carmine loses his nerve and decides to back off from confrontation with Johnny Sack to the dismay of his associates. The Soprano family is forced to have a sitdown with Johnny Sack and the Lupertazzi family. Tony says he does not know the whereabouts of his cousin, but the New York contingent is not satisfied. Johnny Sack suggests another of Tony's cousins could be substituted for Blundetto, a comment obviously directed at Christopher. Before the meeting ends, Sack warns Tony to either deliver Blundetto, "on a spit" or prepare for war.
During their surveillance of Adriana's nightclub, the FBI notice that she is behaving oddly. They observe her carrying a garbage bag out of her club, which she throws into a dumpster only to retrieve it and place it in her car trunk a few seconds later. Through further investigation, they learn from Adriana that a homicide took place in the club that night and she had helped dispose of the evidence.
Tony approaches Carmela with the intention of moving back in. They eat dinner at Nuovo Vesuvio, where he promises to be faithful but Carmela seems reluctant and hesitant, and asks for more. She wants Tony to front her $600,000 to begin building a "spec house" on a piece of real estate which she believes will be a good investment. Tony agrees, and he says he'll come back home. He then visits his girlfriend Valentina and breaks up with her. Still in the hospital from the burn injuries she sustained while cooking for Tony, she has her head wrapped in a scarf to cover the hair loss and scarring. After Tony breaks up with her, she threatens to kill herself.
When Tony goes back to the house with his luggage, he greets and asks A.J. to help him with it, to which A.J. replies, "where do I put them?", implying he had not been told their parents would be getting back together. Finally, Carmela comes in and greets him. Tony hands her a gift and Carmela unwraps a Hermès scarf.
Tony receives a phone call from Tony B. and learns of his cousin's whereabouts, via a tracer placed on his phone. Tony B. called him from a business near their Uncle Pat's farm near Kinderhook, New York. Tony agrees to look after Blundetto's two sons and admits to him the truth about the night Blundetto got arrested all those years ago (Tony S. had previously claimed to have been mugged by a couple of "Unidentified Black Males", but he had really passed out after an argument with his mother). Tony B. seems unfazed by the revelation and ask his cousin if all Tony S. did for him was because of that.
The FBI confronts Adriana and threatens her with 25 years in prison for obstructing a homicide investigation. Adriana convinces them to let her talk to Christopher to try to convince him to cooperate with her and let the FBI place them in the Witness Protection Program. When she comes home and tearfully tells Christopher that she has been cooperating with the FBI, he reacts violently, nearly strangling her to death. After he calms down, they talk and he seems to agree with her suggestions to move away. He tells her he loves her and is leaving to buy some cigarettes; however, while at a gas station he has second thoughts while watching a poor man and his family get into a beat-up Chevrolet Citation and drive away. Adriana later gets a call from Tony, who says Christopher tried to commit suicide and that Silvio is on his way over to pick her up and take her to the hospital. While in Silvio's car, Adriana begins to cry. Noticing her grief, Silvio reassures Ade that Christopher is okay, and everything will be alright. It then becomes apparent that the story about Christopher trying to commit suicide was a lie, as Silvio drives deep into the woods and turns onto a dirt road. She struggles to escape in the car, but Silvio grabs her and throws her to the ground. As Adriana struggles desperately to crawl away on the forest floor, Silvio pulls out a pistol and fires two shots.
Soon afterwards, Christopher packs Adriana's clothing and personal items into a suitcase, then tosses it into an industrial marshland in Newark, then drives her Ford Thunderbird to Newark Liberty International Airport, where he leaves it in the "Long Term Parking" area, and walks away.
After word gets to New Jersey that Johnny Sack has become the unquestioned successor to Carmine Lupertazzi, Tony meets the new Boss at vacant lot by the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, as is their custom. Tony asks that he be given the chance to kill his cousin Tony B. so that he does not suffer, but Sack does not accept his offer. He tells Tony that Phil Leotardo is going to do it "his way". Upon hearing this, Tony withdraws his offer by cursing at Sack, stating that nothing will happen to his cousin, and angrily leaves.
Later Tony goes to the Bada Bing and finds Christopher watching ¡Three Amigos! in the back room. He quickly realizes Christopher is high. Christopher admits to snorting some heroin because he cannot take the pain, telling Tony he loved Adriana. Tony loses his composure and gives Christopher a severe beating.
Carmela and Tony survey the land on which Carmela plans to build her spec house, which coincidentally looks similar to the area in which Adriana was killed. As Carmela discusses her plans, Tony sits on a tree stump and silently expresses a feeling of sadness as he looks over the land, with Carmela standing at his side.
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