When will Tony (and Paulie) die?
What I am left with after this final episode is the question as to where to look for answers. Do we discuss the ambiguous, abrupt non-ending ending (which made me think the Tivo ran out of disk space)? No, that’s all a red herring, as is pretty much everything else in this episode. No, the key to this whole deal is the cat. What does the cat represent? Why does the cat stare at the photo of Chrissy (listening to his iPod), and why does that creep out Paulie, the last man standing in Tony’s original crew? The cat represents conscience, the reminder of past misdeeds, the worst of which is Tony’s murder of someone who was the closest thing Tony had to a son. Moreover, Tony then goes to Vegas and seduces Chrissy’s last sweetheart. This after having Ade killed. Tony is the keeper of the cat, and the keeper of conscience. Chrissy is Christ fallen, hanging on the wall like a Crucifix. The cat stares at him almost angrily. “You gave your life for this man, and look what it got you.” It is as i
