Watch: Tony's Coma Dream: Kevin Finnerty, Explained

Shot by his own uncle, Tony Soprano spends the opening of the final season inside a coma dream where he is Kevin Finnerty, a salesman from Arizona with someone else's briefcase and someone else's life. Watch the video above, then read the dream's meaning. Our full explainer: who is Kevin Finnerty.

The Finnerty sequences are the show's deepest look at Tony's soul. Finnerty is Tony without the life: same face, same temper leaking through, but an ordinary man whose worst sin is a business trip gone wrong. The dream keeps pulling him toward a house full of light and voices, his dead mother waiting at the door, and the series stages his choice to live as a hand pulling back from that threshold. It is the closest The Sopranos comes to showing us Tony's judgment day, and he refuses to walk through the door.

Quick answer: Kevin Finnerty is the man Tony might have been. The coma dream is Tony deciding, at the edge of death, not to enter the house, and not to die.

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