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The Test Dream

"The Test Dream"
The Sopranos episode
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Episode no. Season 5
Episode 11
Directed by Allen Coulter
Written by David Chase
Matthew Weiner
Cinematography by Phil Abraham
Production code 511
Original air date May 16, 2004 (2004-05-16)
Running time 50 minutes
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"The Test Dream" is the sixty-third episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the eleventh episode of the show's fifth season. It was written by series creator/executive producer David Chase, and supervising producer Matthew Weiner, and was directed by longtime series director Allen Coulter. It originally aired in the United States on May 16, 2004. This episode is unique in that it features an elaborate twenty-minute dream sequence, alluded to in the title, featuring many actors from past seasons reprising their roles briefly.

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After just having sex, Tony Soprano's girlfriend Valentina La Paz catches the sleeve of her kimono on fire while making Egg Beaters for Tony in her apartment and is badly burned even though Tony quickly puts out the fire. After Tony visits her in a hospital burn unit (with a disoriented Valentina thinking he is a surgeon), he drops in on Tony B, at his mother's house. Although Tony notices something is wrong with his cousin, who is acting erratically, he does not know that Tony B had just learned about the murder of his old prison friend and cell mate, Angelo Garepe, which had taken place the previous night. Tony B tells his cousin he has to take his twin sons to their mother early, and Tony leaves.

Angelo had picked up a stroller, a high-end Peg Perego brand, at Costco for his grandson and had been returning home with it when Phil and Billy Leotardo flagged him down. They had lied to him, saying that Johnny Sack wanted to see him immediately and, when he had turned around and walked back to his car, they had strangled and beaten him and thrown him into the trunk of Phil's car, where Phil had covered him with a plastic sheet and shot him in the head, despite Angelo's pleas to spare him.


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