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"The Sopranos" Whitecaps (2002)


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"The Sopranos" (1999): Season 4: Episode 13 -- A clip from The Sopranos in which Tony and Ralph plan to rob the government of a lot of money.

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8 December 2002 (Season 4, Episode 13)
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Junior's trial comes to an end, but Tony's trials are just getting underway. Also, the Soprano's almost purchase a house on the beach. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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James Gandolfini ... Tony Soprano

Lorraine Bracco ... Dr. Jennifer Melfi

Edie Falco ... Carmela Soprano

Michael Imperioli ... Christopher Moltisanti

Dominic Chianese ... Junior Soprano

Steve Van Zandt ... Silvio Dante (as Steven Van Zandt)

Tony Sirico ... Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri

Robert Iler ... A.J. Soprano

Jamie-Lynn Sigler ... Meadow Soprano

Drea de Matteo ... Adriana La Cerva
Steve Schirripa ... Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri (as Steven R. Schirripa)
Aida Turturro ... Janice Soprano
John Ventimiglia ... Artie Bucco
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Ray Abruzzo ... Little Carmine Lupertazzi

Tom Aldredge ... Hugh DeAngelis

Bruce Altman ... Alan Sapinsly

Sharon Angela ... Rosalie Aprile
Fran Anthony ... Dot
Randy N. Barbee ... Judge Whitney R. Runions (as Randy Barbee)
Anna Berger ... Cookie Cirillo
Denise Borino ... Ginny 'Sack' Sacramoni

Diana Brownstone ... Woman Friend

Steve Buscemi ... Tony Blundetto
Carl Capotorto ... Little Paulie Germani

Max Casella ... Benny Fazio
Dan Castleman ... Prosecutor

Curtiss Cook ... Credenso Curtis
Cynthia Darlow ... Virginia Lupo
Tony Darrow ... Larry Boy Barese

Matthew Del Negro ... Brian Cammarata (as Matt Del Negro)
Frances Ensemplare ... Nucci Gualtieri (as Frances Esemplare)

Robert Funaro ... Eugene Pontecorvo
Joseph R. Gannascoli ... Vito Spatafore (as Joseph Gannascoli)
Humberto Gettys ... Marshal (as Humberto J. Gettys)

Jerry Grayson ... Marty Schwartz
Dan Grimaldi ... Patsy Parisi
Rosemarie Hue ... Prosecuting Attorney

Kevin Interdonato ... Dogsy

Will Janowitz ... Finn DeTrolio
Alla Kliouka Schaffer ... Svetlana Kirilenko (as Alla Kliouka)
Oksana Lada ... Irina Peltsin (as Oksana Babiy)

Liz Larsen ... Trish Reingold-Sapinsly

Tony Lip ... Carmine Lupertazzi

Emanuel Loarca ... Delivery Guy
Robert LuPone ... Dr. Bruce Cusamano (as Robert Lupone)

Bruce MacVittie ... Danny Scalercio
Jeffrey M. Marchetti ... Petey
Evan Neumann ... Colin McDermott (as Evan Newman)

Frank Pando ... FBI Agent Frank Grasso

Richard Portnow ... Attorney Hal Melvoin
Joe Pucillo ... Beppy Scerbo
Julie Ross ... Court Clerk

Matt Servitto ... Agent Dwight Harris
George Spaventa ... V.I. Trifunovitch
Universal ... Stanley Johnson

Karen Young ... FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino

Richard Zhuravenko ... Principal's Son
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[after Carmela gets a call from Tony's old goomah, she loses it]
Carmela Soprano: You've made a fool of me all these years with these whores, and now it's come into our home!
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Featured in The Sopranos: A Sitdown (2007) (TV) more
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Oh, What a Night more

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8 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Another powerful ending, 13 May 2008
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Author: Max_cinefilo89 from Italy

That Joe Pantoliano would win an Emmy for his work on this show's fourth season was pretty much a given from the start, and anyone doubting James Gandolfini and Edie Falco's potential will probably have changed their mind after seeing the superb season finale, Whitecaps.

Named after the place where Tony considers buying a beach house, the episode is essentially one long climax of the main tension that has been there for four years: the Sopranos' stressful marriage. It's all kick-started by a phone call from Irina, Tony's resentful former lover, who mercilessly taunts Carmela by revealing Tony has been sleeping with her one-legged cousin. This causes Mrs. Soprano to project all her repressed rage on her unlucky husband, who eventually accepts to leave the house. Therefore, two wars begin for Tony (the other is against Johnny Sack, who doesn't approve of the Jersey boss's decision not to go through with a hit on Carmine Lupertazzi), whereas another one ends for Uncle Junior: thanks to a threatened juror, his trial reaches the conclusion he was expecting.

While the Johnny and Junior situations are given very little room, saving material for the fifth series, the Tony/Carmela battle occupies 90% of Whitecaps: it's as if the writers (Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess and David Chase) had taken a regular fight between the two, which usually lasts a couple of minutes, and extended it to make it the subject of an entire episode. But rather than having a soap opera kind of quarrel, which gets boring after thirty seconds, the Soprano family breakdown is a 40-minute metaphorical fistfight between two of American television's finest actors, Gandolfini and Falco spitting bile at each other with neither of them pausing for breath. The Season 4 conclusion is an unstoppable container of acerbic, adult drama, so strong it's hard to believe anything could top The Sopranos at the Emmys in the Outstanding Drama Series category (The West Wing did, for three years; The Practice beat the first season). Unmissable.

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