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SEASON 7 THE SOPRANOS ANIMATED SERIES
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Re: SEASON 7 Episode 2 SOPRANOS ANIMATED SERIES
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Re: SEASON 7 THE SOPRANOS ANIMATED SERIES
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Tony, Silvio, and Paulie Story Backround
The Soprano Crew was founded in about 1960 by Giovanni 'Johnny Boy' Soprano. Johnny Boy had been good friends with Ercoli 'Old Man Ekley' DiMeo (the Boss of the family) for several years pre-1960, and had a huge amount of respect for him. When Ercoli decided to increase the family's population, he split it into four different crew (La Manna, Curto, Junior and Soprano). Johnny ran the Soprano crew and his older brother, Corrado 'Uncle Junior' Soprano the Junior crew. Johnny, along with Michele 'Feech the King of Breadsticks' La Manna, was known as one of the most ruthless and respected mobsters in the entire family. Although well liked, he had a mean streak as well, and wasn't afraid to reveal it from time to time. Johnny was also known to have ruthless, yet liked, side kicks; notably Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti (who was supposedly murdered by a policeman in 1975), Patrizio 'Uncle Pat' Blundetto (Johnny's partner-in-crime and cousin), and Peter 'Paulie Walnuts' Gualtieri (Johnny's and Uncle Pat's bodyguard throughout the 60s and 70s). During the 80s, Johnny also brought his son (Anthony 'Tony' Soprano) along with his friends (Silvio 'Sil' Dante and Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero) into his crew. The two proved capable mobsters and Johnny was proud of his work. Ercoli, although he never had an Underboss of Consigliere, named Johnny his sworn successor as Boss, were he to die or get arrested (this was after Feech been arrested, explaining why he wasn't Johnny's successor, rather than Johnny, who was not as experienced or old as Feech). However, Johnny soon got emphysema and died of cancer in 1989. The whole family was taken by shock.
After Johnny's death, Tony his son was pronounced as the Capo of the Soprano crew, with Sil as his second-in-command. Tony was very well liked by the rest of the family and was thought to be the greatest of all the Capos, with the exception of Giacomo 'Jackie' Aprile Sr., who was later promoted to Boss in 1995, after Ercoli's arrest. Tony and fellow Capo James 'Little Jimmy' Altieri, were the youngest yet most successful Capos during the late 90s. In 1998, Jackie was diagnosed with lung cancer, and by 1999, was in and out of the hospital daily. Jackie and Tony and been like brothers they were at high school together, and at deaths door, Jackie thought it might be a clever idea to start picking a successor. He picked Tony, which thoroughly angered Junior, who had never been considered for Boss, despite being the most experienced mobster in the whole family (though he was hated by almost all). Jackie died in mid-1999, and Tony himself promoted Junior to Boss instead of himself. With Junior in the top position, the FBI would always have the spotlight on him, rather than Tony, who actually ran the organisation. This meant Tony was less likely to get in trouble than Junior. However, later that year, an assassination attempt was made on Tony, though it fail, leaving Tony only with a small ear injury. When Tony found out who had hired hit men to assassinate him, he was shocked and angry - Junior and his Consigliere, Michael 'Mikey Grab Bag' Palmice (a mobster Tony thoroughly hated), had created a conspiracy against Tony, after it was revealed to Junior that Tony was seeing a therapist. Junior therefore believed Tony was working for the FBI, which was not true. Tony took violent action, demanding the death of everyone in the conspiracy. By the end of the week, all but one of the six members of the conspiracy had been killed: Junior had been arrested and was awaiting a re-trial; Joe 'Beppy' Sasso, the family's Underboss, had been given a life sentence; Mikey was murdered; Charles 'Chucky' Signore, a Soldier in the Junior crew was murdered; Donnie Paduana, an Associate in the Junior crew was murdered. Philip 'Philly Spoons' Parisi, the Capo of the Junior crew, was only man remaining. Tony spared him since his twin brother, Pasquale 'Patsy' Parisi, was loyal to him, and he didn't want to create any social conflicts. Due to Beppy Sasso's imprisonment for life, Tony promoted himself to Underboss, his second-in-command Sil to Consigliere, and Paulie Walnuts to Capo. In 2000, Paulie and Tony had Spoons murdered by Gigi Cestone, another Soldier, for spreading nasty rumours about Tony in an attempt to start a mutiny. He got an answer.
After Tony's promotion to Underboss and Sil's promotion to Consigliere (due to Mikey's assassination), Paulie Walnuts was promoted to Capo of the crew. Paulie was a reasonable earner, and an overall good Capo, though sometimes certain Soldiers and Associates thought he took too much pleasure when pulling rank. An example of this was in 2001 when Chrissy had just been promoted to the rank of Soldier. While most of the family applauded his achievement, Paulie simply told Chrissy to take off his clothes, in order to do a full scale inspection of Chrissy, to check he wasn't wearing a wire (a recorder that is placed by the FBI when working for them). Paulie also enjoyed giving particularly hard tasks to Chrissy. It seems Paulie felt that Chrissie had risen too fast in the Family and hadn't necessarily "earned" his promotion, instead believing that he had gotten it mostly due to his family connection to Tony and Tony's personal loyalty to Chrissie's father. In Paulie's mind - and this was based on his own personal experience - rising to the top levels of the Family required many years of toil, steadfast loyalty, and a willingness and ability to successfully and without question complete all manner of "dirty work" for the organization. For this reason, Paulie determined that HE would make Chrissie earn his promotion and understand that the perks he was receiving as a Soldier do not usually come so easy. Paulie also had an obsession with being the highest-earning Capo, which he rarely ever was - the Aprile crew was always the high earning crew no matter who was running it, and the Barese, Junior and Curto crews all brought in a hefty amount of cash. This made Paulie angry and jealous, continuously arguing with the other Capos and claiming that he always had a share of their profits (which wasn't always true). In about 2003, Paulie got cancer, though he 'beat it' and was soon active again. Paulie's loyalties was another downfall of his - at one point in 2003, Paulie wanted to move to the Lupertazzi crime family, and abandon Tony's family (this plan failed since Paulie hadn't been noticed or had made an impression on Boss Carmine Lupertazzi Sr.). As for murders, Paulie was always ready for anything, though sometimes going too far (notably killing a waiter for giving him a large bill). Although he was Capo of the largest crew, Paulie certainly wasn't the best, and by 2006, Paulie started to fall dramatically down in Tony's estimations. During the War of 2007, however, Paulie was loyal to his family, deciding not to join the Lupertazzi side, but to stay with the DiMeo mobsters instead. With Underboss Robert 'Bobby Bacala' Baccalieri Jr. dead and Sil in a coma, Tony needed a new Underboss. He gave Paulie the position (though it wasn't a great achievement, since the only other option was Albert 'Ally Boy' Barese, who got on Tony's nerves). Hence Paulie was promoted to Underboss in 2007. Albert "Ally Boy" Barese Patsy ParisiPatsy was promoted to Capo of the crew after Paulie's promotion. Patsy and Albert Barese as of 2007, are the only Capos left in the family, with Patsy in charge of most of the criminal organizations.Richard "Dickie" MoltisantiFormer soldier in the Soprano crew. Supposedly died in the mid-1970s but fled instead to avoid jail time. Married Joanne Moltisanti née Blundetto, father of Christopher and cousin to Carmella. Dickie was in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and later served time in prison, leaving little time with his family. When the FBI threatened to put him in jail unless he wore a wire, he fled to Canada for 30 years. Everyone in Jersey was told by the Soprano crew he was killed during Christopher's infancy, right outside the house while bringing TV trays home. Years later, Tony Soprano told Christopher that Dickie's killer was Detective Lt. Barry Haydu, who had just retired from the force. Tony delivered Haydu to Christopher Moltisanti as a part of his process of bonding Chris to him and slowly easing him up the family hierarchy. However, when confronted by Christopher, Haydu denied ever having heard of Dickie Moltisanti and claimed that someone was "obviously" setting him up. Tony calls Dickie a "stand up guy" and describes a lot of his positive qualities to Christopher. Dickie once took on a whole crew from New England and brought the war home to their turf.  A young Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti
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Re: SEASON 7 THE SOPRANOS ANIMATED SERIES
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 2006 Shooting of Tony SopranoDuring his house arrest and trials/re-trials, developed signs of dementia. He suffered a head injury after being hit with a boom microphone and knocked down the courthouse steps. Several mini-strokes over the years increasingly diminished his capacity and led him to shoot Tony in the abdomen, mistakenly thinking that Tony was his already deceased nemesis "Little Pussy" Malanga.
The shooting of Tony Soprano set off a media frenzy, with reporters stalking the Soprano house and outside the hospital where Tony lay in a coma. Junior Soprano was arrested and questioned about the shooting, which he insisted must have been a self-inflicted gunshot by Tony, whom he labeled as a "depression case". The captains of the Family agreed to cut all ties to Junior and allow Tony to decide what happens to him. Junior was judged to be mentally unstable and was sent to a mental rehabilitation facility.
With Tony incapacitated, his consigliere Silvio Dante took over as Acting Boss of the Soprano Crime Family; however, Silvio was unable to handle the pressure of being boss, and suffered an asthma attack that put him in the hospital. Tony, after a near-death experience, would awake from his coma soon after, just in time to settle a dispute over the future of Barone Sanitation with Johnny Sack and Phil Leotardo.Tension with New YorkWhile in prison, Johnny Sack reached out to Tony through Phil Leotardo to whack his insubordinate capo, Rusty Millio. Tony refused at first, but had a change of heart after talking to Johnny Sack at his daughter's wedding. Tony conducted the execution of Millio with caution, bringing in two men from Naples to carry out the hit on Rusty and his soldier, Eddie Pietro. Johnny Sack later plead guilty in his RICO trial to lessen his sentence, thus making Phil Leotardo the boss in all but title.
More complications occurred in the organization when Vito Spatafore, the top earning captain of the Aprile crew and cousin-in-law to Phil Leotardo, fled New Jersey after his homosexuality was revealed. Carlo Gervasi was named by Tony as the replacement point man for the Family's construction interests. After hiding in New Hampshire for months, Vito returned to New Jersey, approaching Tony about starting up a separate operation in Atlantic Cityinvolving prostitution. Tony considered the request, but ultimately decided that Vito needed to be taken out in order to placate Phil Leotardo, who was incensed about Vito's lifestyle. However, Phil got to Vito first, breaking into his hotel room and watched while soldiers Dominic "Fat Dom" Gamiello and Gerry Torciano beat his cousin-in-law to death. Tony, realizing that Phil was sending the message that New York can do whatever they want, decided to hurt Phil financially as payback for Vito. Tony reasoned that a war with New York would prevent his family from earning. However, when Fat Dom went to Satriale's on a delivery stop and made jokes about Vito's death and implied Carlo was a homosexual, Silvio and Carlo killed the New York soldier.
Tony's response to Vito's murder was to blow up a wire room held by Phil in Sheepshead Bay Benny Fazio was on the scene for the explosion. After a sit-down between the New Jersey and New York Families, a truce was nearly reached before a reference from Little Carmine to the death of Billy Leotardo resulted in Phil Leotardo storming out. At a conference with Gerry Torciano, Albie Cianfiore, and Butch DeConcini, a decision was reached to take out a high-ranking member of the Soprano crime family. Butch was particularly vocal in his desire to kill Tony, but Phil had more sense than that, and decided against it. Phil suffered a massive coronary soon afterwards and FBI Agent Harris informed Tony that someone on his crew could be in danger. In an attempt to clear the air between them, Tony paid a visit to Phil's hospital bed, telling him of his own near-death experience. During his disagreement with Phil about an asbestos removal project, Tony reminds him of their discussion in the hospital but Phil snubs him. Tony retaliates by taking two members of Phil's crew off a project payroll, after which after one of them threatens Tony's daughter Meadow. Tony retaliates by curb-stomping him on a wooden step in a restaurant in front of Butch DeConcini, shattering all of the threatener's teeth. Phil refuses to meet with Tony after this incident and war between the two families seems imminent.The War of 2007It becomes clear that there is no compromise available between NY and NJ, and as a result the wheels begin to turn. New York convinces Burt Gervasi to switch sides, and he approaches Silvio Dante to join in on a coup d'état attempt on Soprano. The likely idea is that if Tony is killed, Silvio will take over and make peace, and Gervasi will be rewarded. Silvio responds by strangling Burt Gervasi at his house with a garotte. Soprano knew what had to be done, and arranged for Phil Leotardo to be executed. At the same time, Phil had a war-room discussion where he arranged for New Jersey to be wiped out. Phil gives orders to "decapitate the leadership" of the Sopranos and "do business with what's left", and orders contracts on Tony Soprano, Silvio Dante and Robert "Bobby Bacala" Baccalieri. The Sopranos attempt to hit Phil went awry however when Phil's Ukrainian mistress and her father were mistaken for Phil and killed by the non-English-speaking Italians who were brought over from "the other side" specifically to perform this contract.
The hits on the Sopranos in New Jersey took place with more finesse, however. Bacala is killed at a model train shop when two assassins ambush him. Word comes down that Leotardo has vanished, and the Soprano Family decides to do the same. However, as Patsy Parisi and Silvio Dante[/URL] attempt to go on the lam, they are ambushed by a pair of New York hitmen outside the Bada Bing. In the ensuing carnage, Silvio Dante is shot multiple times but Parisi escapes. Silvio is rushed to a hospital where he is left in a coma. Tony and some soldiers head to a safe house to hide, as the search for Phil continued. Tony, surrounded by bodyguards, attempts to sleep while holding an rifle in his arms, which Bobby gave to him on his 47th birthday, Tony came out of hiding shortly after and arranged a sit down with Butch DeConcini and Albie Cianflone through "Little" Carmine Lupertazzi and retired Five Families Boss, George Paglieri. During this meeting the New York Family agreed that Phil Leotardo's decision to go to war with North Jersey was a bad one, has gone much too far and that consequently the New York leadership would back off. Tony also demanded that they give him a location on Phil, but Butch refused to tell of Phil's whereabouts (either because he didn’t know or still felt loyal to his boss). Butch did, however, give Tony implicit permission to take Phil out should he find him, without retaliation from Butch and New York. Butch also agrees to financially compensate Bobby’s widow. Since Tony had previously given FBI Agent Harris information on two Pakistani men that used to be small time associates of the family, Harris eventually told Tony that Phil had been making calls from a pay phone at a gas station in Oyster Bay. The Soprano family began patrolling the area's gas stations looking for Phil. It wasn't long before Walden Belfiore, a soldier in the Gervasi crew, caught up with Phil at the gas station. Phil was shot in the head and chest in front of his wife and grandchildren. His vehicle was in gear and, while Phil was on the ground, the driverless ran over his head. The New York/New Jersey war was brought to its final conclusion.
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Re: SEASON 7 THE SOPRANOS ANIMATED SERIES
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Episode 4
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