A thought jumped into my head a while ago and I keep going back to it.
What if Carmella flips?
I keep envisioning a slow motion montage of Carmella talking to the Feds and then her and the kids being driving to the other ends of the world (really, they’d need to leave the country) intermingled with Tony and crew being cuffed and hauled out with a look on their face of “This time it’s for real” and knowing it was Carmella and the kids that sold him out.
That’s just about the one thing I can’t imagine. They’ve put so much effort into establishing her materialism and her complicity in Tony’s crimes that it would probably feel like a big cheat. Just this season, she’s been worried a bunch of times about what would happen if he was gone. Even if she found out about Adriana, I think she would stick around. She might end up a big-time alcoholic, but walk away from that life?
See I wasn’t sure about that either. I just rewatched Season 1 again, and she is constantly feels guilty about what her husband does, or rather feeling guilty for getting everything she wanted via illegal means. Of course she was also hanging around with Father Phil alot too.
I don’t think she’ll go down with Tony. I can see her talking before going to jail (she does posses a lot of known hot items and items purchased with illegal money).
I don’t think she’d feel like a big cheat, you said it yourself, she’s materialistic, she’ll do what she can to make sure her life stays nice. She’ll soften up as soon as the feds start showing her pictures of Tony actually doing illegal things, and sleeping with lots of other women (she says she’s okay with it, but she’d not at all).
I think she WOULD flip, but I don’t think it’ll be offered to her. But we’ll see.
I was thinking (OK, hoping, really) that her mystery date is a woman.
True. Over the years, though, I think they’ve showed her selling out on that. There are things that upset her, but she’s willing to look the other way on almost anything these days. She’s given Tony advice about business once or twice and didn’t complain when he bent the law to get her spec house built.
Right, but I don’t see how that would happen if she ratted Tony out. By choice and design, she probably doesn’t know anything the FBI would want to know, and she wouldn’t end up nearly this rich and comfortable if she went into Witness Protection.
No way. Carmela and Tony are smart enough to keep their conversations away from the business for the most part. She wouldn’t have anything of value to give to the Feds, because she didn’t want to know, and Tony hasn’t told her. She doesn’t even know specifically what happened to Pussy, Ralphie, Adriana, etc.
I don’t think the Feds would think twice about even making her an offer. Those FBI guys who are tailing Tony probably know more (and suspect more) than Carmela does.
I also think Carmela is a little on the naive side. Look at her reaction when Tony was busted a few epis back. She was going on as if he was some poor CPA looped into some IRS sting. And I think that’s how she views Tony. He’s honorable, sure he’s involved with bad guys, but he doesn’t do anything too out there. Maybe a few fights and tough words. I think she knows how the Barone stuff works, but obviously not about the hijacked trucks, power tools, and that kind of stuff. Partly because she doesn’t want to know, and partly because it’s not the sort of thing that Tony says anything about.
Meadow’s more or less the same way, but she is smarter than her mom. I see an existentialist crisis in her future.
Carmela “flip”?
maybe. . .well. . .except for that “not being in the mob” part. What is she going to do, show the feds the espresso machine that Paulie bought her?
Mob things to remember while you formulate you predictions:
Often it is just some pissant that brings down a family – Some mechanic, non-Capitan, OR someone like Bobby.
Mob bosses or those close to the boss have been known to lose an immediate family member along the way.
When someone talks, violence will actually escalate.
Paulie was in the previews of next week’s episode.
I just checked that scene out in slo-mo and the guy in the bed is Tony the girl looks like it could be Meadow but Tony was not her mystery date as he was at the Bing. I don’t think they will go down that alley anyways. Both still are clothed and the girl is holding something in her left hand. I feel like I should know the lady but I can’t place her right now. It is weird because she looks totally like Meadow but unless Tony is dead I can’t figure out how she would be like that with him. The next scene in the preview has Tony in the same shirt telling someone(PHIL)“You got everthing you want”.
What a sorry Tuesday I am having to do this