Tony travels to Las Vegas, after a tragedy occurs.
Plot
Christopher Moltisanti is driving at night on the New Jersey Turnpike with Tony in the passenger seat when he swerves and the car rolls into a ditch. Christopher is badly injured and Tony is shaken but relatively intact. Tony looks at Christopher in the wreck and makes a decision: he pinches Christopher's nose and mouth shut, suffocating him to death while Christopher is barely conscious. Tony climbs out of the car and waits for emergency services as if the death was entirely from the crash.
Tony goes to Las Vegas. Whatever he is feeling -- and the episode deliberately does not resolve what that is -- refuses to take a recognizable shape. He visits a woman named Sonya Aragon who was connected to Christopher's bachelor party crowd. They take peyote together and go into the desert. Tony watches the sun rise over the Nevada landscape and says 'I get it,' though what he has gotten is something the show intentionally leaves untranslated. It may be relief. It may be something about inevitability.
Back in New Jersey, the crew processes Christopher's death. Paulie and Silvio had legitimate grievances with Christopher and do not pretend to grief they do not feel. Carmela is saddened. Melfi asks Tony at their next session what he is feeling about Christopher's death, and Tony's answer is ambiguous and honest in ways that suggest he is still working out what he did and whether he regrets it.
Credits
Written by: Matthew Weiner and David Chase
Directed by: Alan Taylor