My Sopranos Finale Prediction...

…Tony turns state’s evidence and he and the immediate family go into the witness protection program.

 

I didn’t think this would be a possibility earlier this season – given how “old school” Tony is - but I think all signs are pointing towards it now.

 

The FBI is going to have the goods on Tony after they get a hold of the paper trails and all the documentation they find at Sil’s crime scene. His bank accounts will be frozen and he will have little ready access to cash being on the lam and hiding from Phil. Plus, he could work a deal where the feds take care of Uncle Junior’s nursing home care costs. And, of course, he avoids being killed by Phil’s hitmen – and even gets revenge by fingering Phil and putting him back in prison.

 

It would be a fitting end. Tony lives, but has to live with the shame of being a rat, the worst kind of traitor as he has repeatedly declared, and Carmela is stuck with a middle class life and eternally isolated from all her Jersey friends and family. They are left alone, as a couple, to contemplate the wreckage their way of life has wrought on their children, family and close friends, future and their marriage. It will be sad, pathetic, and poignant.