Last night, I was watching what I thought was an unedited version of the episode in which Silvio whacks Adriana. (The profanity, violence, and sex was left intact, anyway.)
To my amazement, the scene where Christopher tells Tony that Adriana is an FBI informant was omitted completely! I first saw this 20-odd years ago, so I know it exists. It’s even on YouTube:
They also left in the scene where Adriana is apparently trying to flee with her red suitcase (also in the second clip).
I don’t remember that last scene at all, and I wonder why it’s there. To show some “if only she had done that” alternative future?
Was the last scene shown in the first run of the series, or did it end up on the cutting room floor? If it’s on YouTube, I have to assume it was left in in at least some home video releases.
I also remember a moment where she asks “Why are we going this way?” and Silvio says “It’s a shortcut.” It was missing from the version I saw last night.
If you go find the original thread that people were posting to for that episode, I’m almost positive one or two posters that knew the area knew they were going the wrong way.
She should have caught on to what was happening right then. So what are we to assume about her? She’s incredibly dense? Disoriented? Resigned to her fate? All three?
That whole sequence was heartbreaking. Christopher, briefly considering leaving his mob life with her, then he sees the poor family at the gas station and thinks, No way am I giving up my life for Adriana. Then Adriana’s daydream sequence, which appears completely real to the viewer. For one moment the fans are screaming YES!!! She got away! But no.
Adriana is fully aware of who Christopher is and what he does and seems perfectly okay with that. Her uncles were Jackie and Ritchie Aprile, her family was eyeball deep in the life, and yet she also seemed to have a certain naivety about it somehow. I get that mob guys don’t tell their wives everything, so as to not make them “accessories after the fact” as Tony once eloquently put it, but Adriana is portrayed as generally being not really all that bright. The band she tried to sell to Massive Genius was objectively terrible. She seemed surprised when Crazy Horse turned out to be not totally above board.
The daydream in the car is her realizing what she should have done. She “gets” it, but is just far too slow on the uptake to save her own life. In an emotional moment she forgets that these people are savages and tragically trusts them for only about an hour or so too long.
That scene was a flashback in a later episode. It was never included in “Long Term Parking”. It was actually filmed for “Long Term Parking”, but the director decide to leave it out, thinking it was more dramatic for the audience to slowly figure out what was happening along with Adriana. But they kept the footage and decided to use it as a flashback later on.
I was referring to when she was riding in the car, but you’re right. None of what had happened around her seemed to matter, so long as she was taken care of.