Okay. Here's my Soprano series finale.


The FBI conducts a widespread dragnet to round up Soprano family members. They find some of them at Silvio’s club, at Satriale’s, and at their homes. They raid Tony’s home where they find him. Many of the series’ women are gathered there for Meadow’s wedding shower like Carmela, and Rosalie, and Janice, etc. They are grouped near the front door. After the FBI escorts Tony outside, Agent Grasso is the only one left in the house near the door and he is about to walk out when one of the women makes a remark like “You ought to be ashamed of yourself paisan. You betray your people, your heritage.”

Grasso has one hand on the door handle, but stops when he hears those words. He looks down at the floor for a few seconds. He looks up, let’s go of the door handle, and walks a few steps toward the women. He stops a few feet from them and starts talking.

“There was this kid, 20 or so. One night he and a couple friends raided a card game. Unfortunately, they killed one of the players. The guy who ran the game was a made guy and he knew who the kid was. So, the kid got scared. He ran; he hid out. So, the guy asked his boss what he should do about the kid. His boss told him to do what he thought he needed to do. So, later that week the kid was found with a bullet in the back of his head.

Grasso walks a couple of steps closer toward the women. "You see, the kid’s name was Jackie Aprile and the guy that ordered him killed was Ralph Cifaretto. And the boss that gave Ralph the go ahead to murder the kid was – he pauses - Tony Soprano."

Grasso turns and walks out the door. The women stand there horrified. The camera moves from one women’s face to the other. Then Meadow falls to her knees crying. Anthony Jr. walked in just at the as Grasso is teling his tale and now he runs out of the house.

The camera fades to black.

The next scene opens with an extreme closeup of someone’s profile. All you can see is the eye in profile. The camera pulls back. It’s Tony. He’s sitting in a lawn chair by the pool in the backyard of his home. He’s dressed in his shorts, a v-neck t-shirt, and his robe. He doesn’t move; he’s just staring straight ahead. The pool is empty. But it is littered with a lawn chair or two, a half deflated beach ball, a small rusted table. The lawn in the backyard is unmowed; it’s scraggily. There is lawn furniture littering the yard along with pieces of newspaper. Obviously, the place is not being kept up.

The camera swithches back to Tony’s eye in profile. Then you hear a flutter of wings and a few quacks. The ducks have returned. The camera shows them walking around a little near the edge of the pool. Then the camera centers on the eye of one of the ducks. Then it switches back to Tony’s eye. Then back to the ducks as they fly off.

When the camera switches back to Tony, there is a someone standing between the camera and Tony. You see the backside of a women in a nice suit skirt. It’s Dr. Melfi. You hear her say “It’s time, Tony.”

The camera moves slowly to her right as Tony gets up from the chair. Dr. Melfi walks toward him and takes his hand as they both walk toward the back door of the house. When they get to the door, Tony stops and turns to Dr. Melfi and asks, “Where are we going?”

She answers. “Hell” and they open the door and walk into the dark house and the door closes behind them.