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"Kennedy and Heidi"

"Kennedy and Heidi" is the 83rd episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. It is the sixth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season. The episode was written by Matthew Weiner and David Chase and was directed by Alan Taylor. It originally aired on Sunday May 13, 2007.

Episode recap

Template:Spoiler The episode starts with a meeting between the New York and New Jersey families. They're discussing asbestos removal and how Phil was unaware that Tony was dumping asbestos. Phil asked for a 25% cut of what they get for dumping, Tony rejects his offer. After the unsuccessful meeting Tony and Christopher drive home along a winding road in the middle of the night. Tony talks with Christopher about the events of the past year, including his shooting at the hands of Uncle Junior. Christopher, appearing noticeably high, maintains the conversation on a subsistence level, while his driving becomes increasingly erratic. While fumbling with the car's radio buttons, Christopher swerves into the opposite lane, nearly hitting a sedan driven by two teenage girls named Kennedy and Heidi. Christopher's car avoids the oncoming vehicle, only to veer off the road, flipping over many times and finally coming to rest at the bottom of a hill. Tony suffers minor injuries while Christopher, having not worn his seatbelt, is suffering from a crushed rib cage. Christopher asks Tony for help, telling him that he will never pass a drug test and will lose his driver's license. Tony exits the car and begins to dial 9-1-1 on his cell phone, he then looks over to the back seat and sees Christopher's daughter's car seat where she could have been seated, which was impaled by a tree branch. Obviously frustrated, he hangs up the phone and attends to Christopher, who is now coughing up blood and appears to be dying. Tired of Christopher's constant carelessness, Tony holds Christopher's nostrils shut causing him to choke on his own blood while gasping for air.

Tony is rushed to the emergency room, where he calls Carmela to tell her about the accident. Largely unscathed, Tony is home the next morning, and is visited by the members of his crime family who all lament the death of Christopher. Tony is ambivalent towards Christopher's passing, and has a dream in which he admits to Dr. Melfi that he killed Big Pussy, his cousin Tony Blundetto, and implicitly Christopher as well. In reality, Tony find himself unable to discuss his true feelings about Christopher's death with anyone, only hinting to Carmela that he feels relieved. Finally he reveals to Melfi that Christopher was the biggest blunder of his career and he is happy he is gone.

During the preparations for Christopher's wake, Tony hears that Paulie Walnuts' "mother" Nucci Gualtieri has died of a stroke. (In an earlier episode it was revealed that Nucci was actually Paulie's aunt.) The Soprano family and associates attend Christopher's wake in morbid celebrity fashion, with Tony appearing noticeably disgusted by the ostentatious display of mafia grief. Meanwhile, Nucci's wake is poorly attended, deeply upsetting Paulie, which he admits to Tony during Tony's brief appearance at the ceremony.

Fed up with the outpouring of grief over Christopher, Tony makes arrangements to fly to Las Vegas on a private plane to get away from the sadness back home. In Vegas, Tony meets up with a beautiful exotic dancer with whom Christopher used to spend time. He tells her that Christopher has died, and she begins to accompany him during his Vegas trip. The two have sex, smoke marijuana and try peyote together, with an inebriated Tony winning a large amount of money on roulette while high from the drug. Believing his recent bad luck has ended, he yells out happily, "He's dead! He's dead!" While in Vegas, Tony receives a phone call from Phil Leotardo in New York, insincerely offering condolences for Christopher's passing, while providing no relief for the original asbestos impasse.

The episode concludes with Tony and Sonia looking out on the Nevada desert. Still feeling the effects of the drug, Tony sees the sun flicker in the distance. He stands up to walk towards it. Both crying and laughing, he yells out at the sun, "I get it. I get it!"

In a side story, A.J. Soprano is spending time at the college with Jason Parisi and Jason Gervasi. The boy that they tortured last episode for not paying his gambling debts in revealed to have had some toes amputated due to damage from sulfuric acid. A bicycle messenger runs into Gervasi's car door which is carelessly opened as the bike was passing by and an argument ensues, which results in the messenger being racially insulted and beaten. A.J. throws the bike in the path of an oncoming vehicle and it is crushed. He later regrets the incident and laments to his psychiatrist.

Guest starring

Deceased

  • Christopher Moltisanti: suffocated by Tony after Christopher suffered massive trauma brought on by car accident
  • Maria Nuccia Gualtieri: natural causes; stroke.

See List of deaths in The Sopranos series.

Title reference

  • Kennedy and Heidi are the names of the teenage girls driving the car which nearly suffers a collision with Christopher's vehicle.
  • Kelli Moltisanti shows up at Chris' funeral looking, as Tony remarks, like "Jackie Kennedy".

Trivia

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