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"From Where to Eternity" is the 22nd episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. It was the ninth episode for the show's second season. The episode was written by Michael Imperioli and directed by Henry J. Bronchtein. It originally aired on Sunday March 12, 2000. The Sopranos is an American television drama broadcast on HBO about a fictional Mafia family in Northern New Jersey. ...
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Michael Imperioli James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an Italian-American actor who currently plays the role of Christopher Moltisanti on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos. ...
March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ...
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The Sopranos is an American television drama broadcast on HBO about a fictional Mafia family in Northern New Jersey. ...
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Guest Starring roles
Lillo Brancato as Matthew Bevilaqua Lillo Brancato Jr. ...
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Episode recap With friends and family by his side, Christopher clings to life in a hospital ICU. During the night he codes as the doctors attempt to resucitate him. He is pronounced clinically dead for over a minute, but the doctors manage to revive him. Fearing for his life, Carmela vacates an empty room and prays that Christopher will recover and "see the light". When he is conscious, he asks to see Paulie and Tony and tells them of a trip he made to hell where he saw Brendan and Mikey in an Irish bar and every night his father is murdered the same way he was in life and that it is painful.
Tony dismisses the Christopher’s story, but Paulie becomes obsessed with the message Christopher claims he was to give to them: "Three o'clock". Paulie is scared nightly at 3am and has nightmares that wake his girlfriend's children. He eventually seeks the help of a psychic who claims to see the spirits of the men Paulie killed following him. Believing his donations to a church should have prevented him from being haunted, Paulie takes out his frustration on a priest, telling him he won't be giving any more donations.
Meanwhile Carmela learns from Gabriella that an associate in the Soprano family, Ralphie Rotaldo just had a baby with his longtime goomara. When Carmela tells Tony this she asks that he have a vasectomy so that he will not bring intended shame to the family since she knows that he still sees Irina. Tony tries to shake off the accusation since he allegedly broke up with her months ago. Carmela then reminds him the shame that a "bastard-child" would do to this family. Tony does not feel like listening which causes Carmela to take a pillow from the bed and goes downstairs. Adding to Carmela's frustration is the fact that Tony lied to her about Christopher's trip to the afterlife and that Tony is critcizing his son A.J. after he spills food on the floor. Soon after Tony apologizes to A.J. and makes amends, Tony agrees to have his vasectomy if Carmela is still insistive. Carmela says no but that she wants him to be pure and to be hers. They then begin to make love. For the process of removing or killing all microorganisms from an object, see Sterilization (microbiology). ...
Afraid Tony knows he has been working with the FBI, Pussy tries to regain his trust by hunting down Matt Bevilaqua. When he gets the information as to his whereabouts, Pussy calls Tony and the two execute the would-be assassin.
Carmela's Prayer Gentle and merciful lord Jesus, I want to speak to you now with an open heart, with an honest heart. Tonight I ask you to take my sins and the sins of my family into your merciful heart. We have chosen this life in full awareness of the consequences of our sins. I know that Christopher's life is in your hands... And his fate is your will. I ask you humbly to spare him. And if it is your will to spare him, I ask that you deliver him from blindness and grant him vision. And through this vision may he see your love... And gain the strength to carry on in service to your mercy. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Deceased - Matthew Bevilaqua: shot by Tony and Pussy in revenge for Christopher's shooting
Title reference - The episode's title is a play on the 1953 film, From Here to Eternity. It refers to Christopher having a trip to the afterlife and not knowing whether it was purgatory or hell.
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the famous beach scene in From Here to Eternity. ...
Trivia - The song "My Lover's Prayer" by Otis Redding is played throughout the episode.
- Although the episode aired ninth, it was the eighth to be produced.
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