The Sopranos: Did Rhiannon Kill Tony?

the sopranos is known for not always answering every question the fans have we never learned what happened to the russian and pine barrens for example or more importantly whatever happened to tony's lo mane i've been dreaming of that [ __ ] romaine all the way the [ __ ] over here now who came in here and ate my [ __ ] but the biggest unanswered question of the series remains who killed tony in the final episode it's been debated heavily since the finale aired almost 15 years ago but i am here to give you a definitive answer the person who whacked tony soprano is actually rhiannon flammer that's right not butchy not paulie not noah punching tony's lights out no it was a high school girl that walked out of that men's room and put a cap in tony's ass nah i'm just kidding but there is a theory that rhiannon was responsible for tony's death either directly or indirectly let's get into it rhiannon is introduced in the season 6 episode johnnycakes as a 15 year old girl who somehow managed to get into a club in new york she soon becomes the girlfriend of aj's scumbag friend hernan and does see tony in his house the next time we meet rhiannon is as a patient in the mental facility that aj is in after his suicide attempt she's in there for dietary problems and depression we learned that she and hernan broke up and that she's been doing a little modeling on the side she and aj start to hang out after they get out eventually they make out in his suv while listening to bob dylan and things start to get hot despite this they continue to date in the final episode even though she is technically 17 and still in high school rhiannon tells aj she thinks it's a bad idea for him to go to iraq and when aj decides to take a job with little carmine's production company instead he is seen picking her up in his new car his parents bought him rhiannon gets a lot of screen time in the final episode which you think would be used for more important characters you might say it's ultimately aj's screen time but we don't see meta with patrick nearly as much during this episode and they are actually engaged some people believe the reason she's featured so prominently is because she is responsible for whoever killed tony knowing that their family would be at holston's that night let's run through the evidence when tony visits his family at carmela's house on the shore aj escorts rhiannon out through the front door we then get this exchange this kind of bothers me okay thanks who's she gonna go though tony is dismissive of the damage rhiannon could do it is telling that the writers are drawing attention to this ultimately though nothing would come of this as phil is killed and the war is over tony and his family then return to their home later she is watching tv with aj at the house when carmela announces that they are going to holston's at night she looks up when she hears this information drawing attention to the fact that she heard it it is believed that whoever had tony killed got his whereabouts that night from her it's how they knew he would be at that diner the fact that she heard it early enough would also give enough time for a gun to be planted in the bathroom the members only guy tony's presumed killer walks into the bathroom before he kills him an obvious parallel to the scene in godfather where michael goes to the bathroom to get the gun the obvious question then is who is responsible for tony's death and how do they know rhiannon well paulie did see rhiannon in the blue comet look at the stems on blondie he's riding high nice to be young eh he was also looking suspicious in the final episode maybe he got the information from her however it's much more likely that it was the lubritazies who used rhiannon though they agreed to a truce this might have been a way to make tony lower his guard so they could get to him as it happens in the hair salon where they planned the original hit on tony there appears to be a picture of rhiannon on the wall we know she did some modeling work which might have brought her into contact with one of the lubritasis after all guys like little carmine are known to work in the entertainment industry now i'm not sure how relevant this is but the name rhiannon is pretty unique the most famous use would probably be the fleetwood mac song rhiannon chase is familiar with this song having used it in the season 2 episode d girl in the scene where chris is giving out information that will later be used against him and the song does contain this lyric as well [Music] now there are some problems with this theory the first being why would rihannon sell out aj's father there are some people who think that rhiannon was actually planted in the mental hospital in order to seduce aj and gain his trust after all it would make much more sense why a guy like aj soprano is able to score a girl like her despite you know being aj soprano however in all seriousness the idea that the mob coordinated a hit with an underage high school girl is way too much of a stretch there is no way they would be able to trust her with that kind of information and besides the original plan to kill tony was still on at that point he wasn't even in hiding them and they would have no need for that information no i think it's much more likely that if she did provide them his whereabouts she either gave the information unintentionally or didn't know what it was going to be used for but did the lupertazies even need rhiannon to figure out where tony would be after all he had gone back to his normal routines he was living in his house meeting at satrialis and the bing they could have easily found him anytime they wanted you could say that maybe they intentionally wanted a situation where they could kill him in front of his family just like he did with phil but again that sounds like a stretch for me i can't see guys like butchie or carmine being that sentimental when the consequences of war were already so disastrous ultimately i do think all the attention given to rhiannon in the final episode was intentional i think they wanted an explanation for how tony's whereabouts might have been known even if they didn't technically need it chase was trying to create an ending that lent itself to multiple interpretations it's why we get hints to different people who all might have been responsible for tony's death it's also why some people don't even believe he was killed and are viciously calling me an idiot for thinking so in the comments right now but you know what's really idiotic having your unencrypted data available to the world that's where atlas vpn can help you atlas vpn is a tool that encrypts your data and hides your virtual location don't be like tony if he had simply used a vpn to hide his location they would never have been able to find him with or without rhiannon not only can atlas vpn keep you safe from guys and members only jackets it also gives you access to tons of geo-restricted movies and tv shows 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Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 04 2021