For All Debts Public and Private

"For All Debts Public and Private" is the 40th episode of the

• James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
• Dr. Jennifer Melfi
• Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
• Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
• Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
• Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
• Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
• Anthony Soprano, Jr.
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
• Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
• Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano
• Furio Giunta
• Johnny Sack
• Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
• Ralph Cifaretto

Speaking to Dr. Melfi about business with unusual frankness, Tony discusses his plans to use Christopher as a proxy in order to avoid jail time or death. Although he knows that Christopher is taking heroin again, he now, in an attempt to bond with him, gives him the name and home address of a recently retired policeman who Tony claims killed his father. Christopher breaks into the man's house and kills him.

First appearances

• Bobby Baccalieri, III
  : Bobby's son
• Karen Baccalieri
  : Bobby's wife
• Sophia Baccalieri
  : Bobby's daughter
• Carlo Gervasi
  : Soprano/DiMeo crime family capo
• Murf Lupo
  : Aging former Soprano/DiMeo crime family capo and friend of Junior Soprano
• Cosette: the dog of Adriana La Cerva

Deceased

• Det. Lt. Barry Haydu: shot dead in his home by Christopher Moltisanti
  to avenge Dickie Moltisanti's murder.

• The episode's title is taken from a phrase found on American paper currency: "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". The episode ends with a close-up of a twenty-dollar bill that Christopher takes from Lt. Barry Haydu after he kills him—the only episode in the series to not fade to a black screen.

Production

• This episode was the first to be produced and aired after the September 11 attacks. From this episode on, the shot of the World Trade Center towers in the opening credits is absent, replaced by additional shots of industrial scenery before reaching the toll booth.
• Johnny Sack
  ) is now billed in the opening credits, but only for the episodes in which he appears.
• A comment made by Carmine Lupertazzi to Tony Soprano, "A
  don doesn't wear shorts", was added into the show after James Gandolfini was contacted by a supposed real-life mafia associate who praised him on the authenticity of the show, with the exception that Tony often wears shorts, which he said a real don would never do.^[1]
• "For All Debts Public and Private" is one of only two Sopranos episodes in which the end credits roll on top of a picture (the eye of the twenty-dollar bill in this case) instead of a black background (the other episode is "Cold Cuts" from Season 5) and the only episode in which they do so for the entire duration of the credits.

Other cultural references

• The
  Bobby Baccala mentions the attacks as a factor of his 69-year-old mother's deteriorating mental health
  . Tony expresses his fears of deteriorating loyalty when overlooking Junior's legal expenses, referencing the attacks to Dr. Melfi as "That Terrorism shit".
• Bobby subsequently claims that "Quasimodo predicted all this", mistaking The Hunchback of Notre-Dame's main protagonist for Nostradamus, whose supporters believe accurately predicted many major world events.
• Junior is shown watching the movie Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.
• During the scene in which Carmela approaches Tony about finances, the movie playing on the television is Rio Bravo, a 1959 Western starring John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. In the scene that Tony is watching, Martin and Nelson sing a duet, "My Rifle, My Pony and Me". This song is also used at the end of the future episode "Pie-O-My."
• At Lt. Haydu's house, Chris is shown watching the
  Magnum P.I. episode "No More Mr. Nice Guy."
• When Paulie is on the payphone in county jail, The Jerry Springer Show is seen on the television in the background.
• During the scene in which Janice and Ralphie are snorting cocaine in the bathroom, Janice comments "Oh Bartleby, Oh Humanity" a reference to the drama surrounding Jackie Jr.'s death. This is the last line from Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
• Junior comments that
  Murf Lupo should "go on Joe Franklin [and] tell the whole tri-state area" about Junior feeling better after passing gas, referring to Joe Franklin
  's The Joe Franklin Show, the first television talk show.
• Tony sarcastically compares Junior to
  the Amazing Kreskin
  .

• The song played at the episode's beginning and over the end credits is "World Destruction" by
  Time Zone (with John Lydon
  ).
• An early version of the episode's script had it open with the song "
  If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.^[2]
• The song played while two women make out on a hotel bed is "Do You Wanna Get Heavy?" by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
• The song playing while Bobby and Tony are eating in the diner is "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith.
• The song playing while Christopher smokes a heroin-laden cigarette with one of the Icelandic Air Flight Attendants is "Something Something" by Coo Coo Cal.
• The song played while Christopher
  shoots up is "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me", sung by Dean Martin in Rio Bravo
  (1959).
• The song playing while Det. Lt. Haydu pulls into his driveway is "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.
• The song playing when Carmela sees Angie in the supermarket is "
  Saturday in the Park" by Chicago from their album Chicago V
  .

External links

• "For All Debts Public and Private" at HBO
• "For All Debts Public and Private" at
  IMDb