Just finished the sopranos and throughout the series the show runners placed certain behaviours to get you thinking more and more as the show went on.

By the time the series finished AJ was a wreck but he was just starting working for Carmine so he was still in the world of his father when the show ended.

When his father was shot by junior he wanted to take revenge himself. So he has it in him to be brutal if he wanted to be his father just never really seen of nurtured him to carry on the family business.

What got me thinking in the final scene the guy we think shoots Tony goes into the bathroom. Comes out shoots Tony.

But throughout the series whenever a bit like this takes place the shooter drops the gun and walks away.

Is it possible sees the gun being dropped to the gun snaps picks up the gun and shoots the gunman.

Carmine could take AJ under his wing and and mould him into a gangster. He will hate his mother hate the world for the loss of his father and if he feels no regret for killing the shooter it could be the thing that give him the direction he always needed