The Sopranos (The Sopranos episode) not be picked up by HBO and, in that case, planned to ask the network for additional money to shoot another 45 minutes and turn it into a feature film. Chase was also pressured by another, completely new development deal offered to him by another network, which he kept postponing until he heard HBO's verdict on "The Sopranos". Right before Christmas of 1997, David Chase received a phone call and learned that HBO did like the pilot and ordered a full season, all of which happened about two hours before the deadline for accepting the other network's deal. Chase was
FBI on The Sopranos Ruggiero's Neighborhood," his predictions are correct and the tank does explode causing serious damage to the basement. FBI on The Sopranos A major plotline on the fictional HBO drama "The Sopranos" was the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's ongoing pursuit of the DiMeo (New Jersey) and Lupertazzi (Brooklyn) crime families. The Bureau's investigations met with varying degrees of success. This article lists both characters who acted as F.B.I. informants and F.B.I. agent characters and as such is an expansion of the main article List of "The Sopranos" characters. Being an F.B.I. informant on "The Sopranos" is a risky proposition, often