History Recap / TheSopranosS6E10MoeNJoe

* IncestSubtext: Dr. Melfi tries to explore the possibility that Tony may have had a thing for Janice when she was a teenager, and vice versa. Suffice to say that Tony [[IResembleThatRemark has an angry and defensive reaction]] to Dr. Melfi bringing it up.

* ButNotTooGay: The love scene between Vito and Johnny Cakes doesn't get much further than brief kissing in bed. One gets the sense that while the series was making an honest effort to deconstruct homophobia, it was also wary of alienating too many of its loyal audience.

Sack also agrees to an allocation deal to leave additional financial resources for his family. He testifies generally as to the existence of TheMafia, but he does not describe specific activities of his former partners in crime. Mobsters from both New Jersey and New York still feel utterly betrayed and outraged over Sack taking the deal and testifying.

* BrokenPedestal: How the mobs on both sides of the Hudson River feel about Johnny Sack after he takes the allocation deal.

* ButtMonkey: Remember that [[CoolCar Maserati]] Chris bought from Johnny Sack? It gets repossessed after Sack takes the allocation deal.

** Both Jersey and New York mobsters feel utterly betrayed by Johnny Sack taking the allocation deal.

** Johnny Sack takes the allocation deal because he wants Ginny and his children provided for.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Johnny Sack struggles immensely with whether or not to take the allocation deal. But it's implied that his suspicions that [[DragonWithAnAgenda Phil]] is screwing him over behind his back, along with Tony taking advantage of his desperate circumstances to lock him into a LeonineContract, definitely make it easier to take the deal.

** Tony decides to let Sal Vitro out of doing Johnny Sack's yard for free after Sack takes the allocation deal. There is a question of how little it had to do with actually being nice to Sal Vitro, who he made sweat with trolling and more to do with [[RightForTheWrongReasons resentment towards Sack]].

* SadisticChoice: Johnny Sack struggles immensely between keeping quiet on TheMafia that he has shown UndyingLoyalty to his whole life but watching his family struggle financially, and making a deal that amounts to betrayal but will provide for his family. He squirms and struggles to [[TakeAThirdOption find alternatives]] that will provide for his family without having to provide the allocution, such as having Tony broker the deal with the New Orleans company. But he ends up relenting and providing the allocation when his efforts to find those alternatives prove inadequate to both look after his family and avoid taking the deal.

* SiblingRivalry: Tony and Janice lock horns early during the episode. Tony also relates to Dr. Melfi they definitely had the Rivalry going when they were kids.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tony refers to the Black youth who ambushed Bobby as "crackhead animals".

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Johnny Sack struggled immensely with whether to take the allocation deal. But it's implied that his suspicions that [[DragonWithAnAgenda Phil]] was screwing him over behind his back, and Tony taking advantage of his desperate circumstances to lock him into a LeonineContract, definitely made it easier to take the deal.

* ProperlyParanoid: Johnny Sack asks Tony not to let Phil in on the attempt to broke a sale of the New Orlean company. And given that [[DragonWithAnAgenda Phil]] [[Recap/TheSopranosS6E9TheRide cut Sack out of the vitamins score]] behind Sack's back, it's entirely justified.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The man with the jeep insists on filing a police report when Vito crashes into the jeep. Vito is desperate to remain OffTheGrid and avoid detection either by law enforcement or the [[YouCantGoHomeAgain crime families he had once been a part of]]. So Vito [[HiddenWeapons discreetly pulls a gun]] out of his car, and then [[BoomHeadshot shoots the man in the back of the head]].

* DrowningMySorrows: Vito loads up not only while working, but while driving in an effort to cope with leaving Johnny Cakes. Johnny Cakes could smell it on his breath earlier.

* DrowningMySorrows: Vito loads up while driving in an effort to cope with leaving Johnny Cakes.

Tony decides to go through with it when he also sees an opportunity to please Janice and get her off his back. He agrees to a slight reduction of his finder's fee but insists that Sack sell him his house at half price. Sack, more desperate than ever to look out for his family, agrees. Ginny is on the verge of tears as Janice moves into the house.