The Sopranos Drones
Tony, Paulie, and Silvio are lounging in the back office of Bada Bing. Tony is holding the newspaper which has “Drone Sightings in Jersey” on the frontpage.
“You guys see this drone nonsense?” Tony asks.
“If it ain’t aliens, which it probably is, it’s gotta be the feds,” says Paulie.
“You and your fuckin aliens,” says Sil.
“If aliens were spying on us, why the fuck would they come to Jersey? Wouldn’t they go somewhere nice, like Sicily or Rome where there’s a little more history? Tradition?”
“Aliens don’t know about our history, T. They’re just coming down from the sky, see a bunch of bright lights over Jersey and say to themselves, that’s where the action is.”
“Or they saw the bright lights of the Bada Bing and said let’s go see some titties,” Tony jokes and Sil laughs.
“This ain’t no laughing matter. What if they’re listening to our conversations from those things?”
“You’re worried that the aliens are listening to our conversations?”
Sil laughs, “Man these guys won’t stop talking about the gabagool.”
Tony cracks up.
“This gabagool gotta be code for something important,” continues Sil.
“Why you gotta go disrespecting the gabagool,” asks an offended Paulie.
Bobby Baccallieri enters the room.
“Ton, you gotta come see this, there’s a drone flying over the parking lot.”
“What’d I tell you?” Paulie gets up with a purpose and leads the way out of the back office into the parking lot. Tony looks confused and a little concerned.
The four of them make it out into the parking lot where a drone is flying 20 feet above their heads. Paulie takes out his pistol to shoot it down, but Tony stops him.
“Woah, woah, Paulie take it eassee. We can’t be shooting our guns out in public it’s 10:30 in the morning!”
“We gotta find out who’s controlling this, T! They’re targeting us!”
Just then, the drone drops and flies right towards Paulie’s head. Paulie screams and fires his pistol at it. He hits the drone and it crashes to the ground. We hear laughing from around the corner as Christopher and walks around from behind the dumpster holding a remote control.
The whole group is dying laughing now as Paulie stands there shaking in fear. His life just flashed before his eyes. He points a finger at Christopher, “That wasn’t fucking funny!”
“You shoulda seen your face!” Laughs Christopher.
“Hey at least we know if alien drones are coming to get us, we got Paulie to protect us,” says Tony. “Let’s go eat some gabagool.”
We watch the crew walk back inside laughing as we pan out and up on the Bada Bing and the neighboring highway. Higher and higher until we see… a drone spying over the joint and zoom off.