At first I thought Paulie in jail was a dream sequence.

The FBI has a mole in the person of Danielle. She's friends with Adriana in a big way now by insinuating her into Adriana's daily life. A drawback to Danielle is that she's a new mom (hubby seems to be FBI as well), and that's a weakness for her in the future if Tony gets wind of her mole-ish ways.

AJ is still going to the military school, isn't too interested in having to read the New York Times (his mother found a big stack of them in his room).

Carmella wants to know how to get at the money in case Tony goes away.

Tony got his hopes up when he saw a bush shaking (hoping it was the return of the ducks), but it was just a squirrel.

Tony's stashing money all over his property. Bidness is down. He has a pow wow with his "earners" who ain't earning, and Tony lays the smackdown on them.

Uncle Junior finds out that the doctor's office he and Tony go to to discuss bidness has been bugged all this year. Junior is going to trial in a few weeks, and his legal bills are getting really high, he asks Tony for help in paying the bills. Tony initially isn't too helpful with Junior.

Tony got a tip about where good real would be due to a new convention center being built. He even soaked Uncle Junior for some prime estate (that Junior owned) in the guise of helping Junior with his legal bills.

Bobby gets promoted (because the other old coot is losing his memory and is simply too old to handle the bidness). Tony and Bobby share a steak-to-steak meal over it. Somehow Bobby got Quasimodo and Nostrodamus mixed up (as the guy that predicted 9/11/01 and all of the mideast turmoil), and then it got to the hunchback of Notre Dame (that being Quasimodo) and how Notre Dame is known for football and quarterbacks and running backs. Bobby's definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


Pauli's in jail. He and some other guy got pulled over, and before you know it, the cop find a .38 that was the weapon in an unsolved crime. Pauli calls Johnny Sacks to bail him out. We don't know if Johnny can pull those strings (or if he intends on helping Pauli).

Tony's been riding Christopher hard trying to make him become his right hand man, but Christopher is really getting resentful. Christopher is really into drugs nowadays. Tony send him in on a retired cop, tells him the cop killed Christopher's father on a contract killing (but they let him live because he was useful as a cop until now). The audience doesn't know if Tony was just setting Christopher up as a test of loyalty or not. The cop denied knowing anything. Christopher does off the retired cop. Was disgusted that the cop only had $20 in his wallet. They had an old episode of Magnum P.I. which made the audience think that Christopher was surround by the police after offing the cop. But it was just the TV.

Tony and the New York mob boss do a bit of celebrating on the convention center deal coming into being. Then Furio brings in some foreign flight attendants to party with them. I did not need to see that shot of Ralphie's backside...

Ralphie and his wife were invited to Tony's place for dinner because it was the wife's birthday (Carmella's parents are there, as is Janice). The wife (Roe?) is on medication and basically zoned out. During dinner, Adriana and Danielle show up to pick up something, and Danielle finally meets Tony (who shows the obvious interest in lovely woman). Ralphie goes to the bathroom to snort some cocaine and Janice finds a way to get Ralphie to let her in to do a line to two. Before you know it, Ralphie and Janice are doing each other in the bathroom.

Meadow is basically depressed.

Tony almost all but spills the beans to his shrink, but he basically outlines where he's going (in this season) which is to fold back into trusting only family (Christopher being tapped as Tony's right hand man after putting him through some trials to make sure he's "okay" and has the right stuff.)

Christopher goes to his mother's house, looks at his father's Navy photo, a bit satisfied knowing that he's avenged his father's death. His mom comes into the kitchen, they "catch up" and just share some mom-son time. Christopher leaves shortly, and even leaves the $20 bill from the cop's wallet on the fridge door held up by magnets.