The Sopranos concluded its third season on HBO last night.

The show is recapped below, with thanks to Jam! TV.

The Sopranos: The Army Of One

Psychopath Ralphie arranged the hit at the prompting of Tony (who was ready to inflict a little payback after Jackie Jr. broke the heart of his daughter Meadow). Then, after the funeral, a shaken Meadow began to see that her ex-boyfriend's death was her father's awful handiwork.

Tony's disaffected son A.J. stole a geometry test and got caught. Permanently expelled from his private school, he was about to be banished by Tony to a military school for some good, old-fashioned discipline.

That plan was derailed when A.J. collapsed in front of his parents, revealing to them that he's subject to the same panic attacks that afflict his father.

"He's got that putrid, rotten Soprano gene," Tony wailed to Dr. Melfi, the psychiatrist to whom Tony desperately turned for his own help in the series' premiere. "How are we gonna save this kid?"

Overall, the finale was a somber, tense hour of unrelieved foreboding.

"Not for nothing," said Paulie to Tony, "but I think you've been wound a little tight lately."

Not for nothing! With a troubled son and a horrified daughter, not to mention an increasingly fractious crew and that snooping FBI, Tony's world seems to be unraveling as never before.

And there was still no sign Sunday of that injured Russian thug who, if he remains alive after escaping from Paulie and Chris two episodes ago, is sure to be back, stalking his would-be executioners.