Livia, a woman who makes Medea look saintly, had put out a contract on her son because he put her in a nursing home. The son's actions weren't sanctioned by the Family's rules of an earlier generation, but they're understandable in this family. When the son visits a psychiatrist, not a priest, Livia worries about what he says to the shrink about her . Civilization Soprano-style has lots of discontents. Livia's daughter returns to take care of her, presumably to get her hands on money and goods.
Relativism meets realism.
These episodes suggest an implied comparison to the ethics of the legitimate world. I grew up as the daughter of a bookie, an illegal trade in the 1940s and 1950s. Then the state took it over and called them lotteries. I can still remember how disappointed he was to discover that the ethics of the legitimate bankers and builders, his new colleagues, did not always measure up to the standards of the hustlers he knew from the old days. The Sopranos'' is no morality play.