S6E18 · Kennedy and Heidi

Complete story — includes the ending

Phil learns that the waste Tony has been sending to the sanitation business contains asbestos, and he demands an increased cut of profits if he is to take more. Chris drives erratically with Tony while not wearing a seatbelt and crashes, severely injuring himself. Chris tells Tony to call a taxi instead as he will not pass a drug test. Realizing he is using heroin again, Tony suffocates him. He dreams of admitting relief to Melfi at the weight Chris's death took off him, as well as his role in the deaths of Blundetto and Pussy. In the actual session, he claims he is not grieving. He is annoyed by the display of sorrow at Chris's wake, later attending the much less populated wake of Nucci with Carmela. A.J. seems to improve, but falls back into depression after his friends beat up a young black man. He forlornly asks his therapist "why can't we all just get along?" Tony impulsively leaves for Las Vegas after seeing Chris's widow breastfeed their daughter, where he has sex and takes peyote with Chris's former stripper comare. He has a winning streak in roulette, mumbles "he's dead," and collapses in a fit of laughter. As the waste is dumped into a lake, Tony watches the sun rise over the Red Rock Canyon with the stripper. He sees a flash of light in the sky and cries "I get it!"