10 More TV Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won

One of The Sopranos' very best episodes, "Employee of the Month" revolves around Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) being sexually assaulted by a man, Jesus Rossi (Mario Polit), and the resulting fallout.

Though Jesus is quickly caught by the cops, he's soon enough released due to an evidentiary technicality, at which point Dr. Melfi considers asking her patient, mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), to deliver the justice that official legal channels couldn't. But crucially, the episode ends with Melfi deciding not to go this route. 

And while fans might've assumed that it'd somehow get followed up in a future episode, Jesus is never seen again, seemingly never punished for his crime, and worst of all, free to attack other women.

Given that The Sopranos ran for an additional three seasons and Jesus was a "minor" antagonist in the grand scheme of things, it's easy to gloss over the fact that he's one of series' few villainous characters to be left totally untouched by the show's end.

This was a frustrating outcome by design, though, as was made clear by creator David Chase in an EW interview:

"If you’re raised on a steady diet of Hollywood movies and network television, you start to think, ‘Obviously there’s going to be some moral accounting here.’ That’s not the way the world works. It all comes down to why you’re watching. If all you want to see is big Tony Soprano take that guy’s head and bang it against the wall like a cantaloupe…The point is Melfi, despite pain and suffering, made her moral, ethical choice and we should applaud her for it. That’s the story."