History Recap / TheSopranosS1E6PaxSoprana

* ProperlyParanoid: Carmela relates to Father Phil that she always tolerated Tony's goomahs, likening them to a meaningless masturbation outlet, but feels threatened by the prospect of Dr. Melfi taking over as THE woman in Tony's life. Despite never previously seeing Dr. Melfi, and despite Tony's emphatic and repeated denials, she turns out to be spot on.

* NoticeThis: The camera lingers on the name badge of a waiter named "John" at the Soprano crew dinner held during the episode. A couple of minutes later, it's revealed that this waiter is an undercover agent and is taking photos to bring back to the FBI.

* OedipusComplex: Dr. Melfi starts to clue into this about Tony, but stops herself just short of saying it outright.

* SpottingTheThread: Tony and Jennifer Melfi both get instances of this during the first therapy scene. She gives him a speech suggesting that she's figured out why he's visiting her office - he's projecting all the problems from the women in his life onto her and using that as an outlet. He, in turn, wonders aloud why she took him on as a patient despite any other legitimate therapist refusing to talk to him.
* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: Melfi is having trouble with her car, and with the mechanics who are fixing it. When Tony learns this during one of his therapy sessions, he has her car stolen, fixed, and returned that night. She's grateful, but not happy about it.

** Carmela storms out on Tony after they return home from their anniversary dinner, and (while attempting to kiss her) mentions how Melfi has told him about feelings can become confused.

* SpottingTheThread: Tony and Melfi both get instances of this during the first therapy scene. She gives him a speech suggesting that she's figured out why he's visiting her office - he's projecting all the problems from the women in his life onto her and using that as an outlet. He, in turn, wonders aloud why she took him on as a patient despite any other legitimate therapist refusing to talk to him.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Tony has trouble getting it up in bed with Irina, caused by his drifting thoughts of Melfi and the recent troubles with his wife.

* DrunkWithPower: Uncle Junior, as becoming the official boss of the family really gets to his head, precipitating actions that actually compromise his status with the capos and other members of the family.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Rusty Irish, who's thrown off a bridge by Mikey and lands head first into a rock.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Realizing that he's outmatched by Junior's "new arrangements", Tony enlists the help of Lupertazzi underboss Johnny Sack to cajole Junior into presenting an acceptable arrangement to the Hesh situation.

The next morning, Junior is at his tailor's getting fitted for a suit. Making small talk with the tailor, Junior is dismayed to learn that the man's grandson killed himself after taking drugs bought from Rusty Irish (a dealer in Larry Boy's crew),jumping off a bridge in a daze. After talking with Mikey about the matter, Junior decides to make an example out of Rusty and has Mikey and another associate [[KarmicDeath throw him off a bridge]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident and pay the onlookers to claim it was a suicide to the police]]. Junior also goes to visit Livia at the retirement home, and she convinces him to start taxing Hesh Rabkin in order to get under Tony's skin.

The next morning, Junior is at his tailor's getting fitted for a suit. Making small talk with the tailor, Junior is dismayed to learn that the man's grandson killed himself by taking drugs from Rusty Irish, a dealer on Larry Boy's crew, and jumping off a bridge in a daze. After talking with Mikey about the matter, Junior decides to make an example out of Rusty and has Mikey and another associate [[KarmicDeath throw him off a bridge]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident and pay the onlookers to claim it was a suicide to the police]]. Junior also goes to visit Livia at the retirement home, and she convinces him to start taxing Hesh Rabkin in order to get under Tony's skin.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Tony already starts to feel them when he's having to address the Capos' complaints against Uncle Junior. He confides in Hesh that as much stress as he feels being the unofficial manager of the operations, he definitely does not want to be official boss. Uncle Junior can enjoy the title.

** Tony tries to initiate normal conversation with Irina several times, but due to her instances of LostInTranslation, she believes him to be calling her a whore and storms off twice.

* NoticeThis: The camera lingers on the namebadge of a waiter named "John" at the Soprano crew dinner held at the episode. A couple minutes later, it's revealed that this waiter is an undercover agent and is taking photos to bring back to the FBI.
* OedipusComplex: Dr. Melfi starts to clue in to this about Tony, but stops herself just short of saying it outright.

* StupidEvil: How the Capos view Junior's decision to have Mikey kill Rusty Irish. Their tendencies towards PragmaticVillainy mean that they regret the suicide of the tailor's grandson, but not to the point of dispensing with a big earner like Rusty.

'''Season 1, Episode 06:'''
!Pax Soprana

In the morning, Tony has some trouble getting it up with Irina, and it leads to a spat where Irina burns his arm with a candle. Tony is playing poker with his capos later that day at Satriale's when Hesh arrives and asks to speak with him privately. Outside, Hesh tells him what happened with Junior's new tax arrangement, and Tony promises to figure something out. That night, plagued with dreams about Melfi and Junior's dealings, Tony takes Carmela out for an anniversary dinner, but uses it as an opportunity to meet with Johnny Sack, the underboss of the Lupertazzi crime family in New York.

Johnny [[SpottingTheThread immediately figures out]] that Tony is still running the show behind the scenes while Junior acts as a fall guy. They both agree to set out a proposition to pacify Junior and stop the new tax arrangemenets before he goes back to his table.

The next day, Tony settles the dispute between Junior and Hesh by bringing Johnny in for a meeting at Satriale's and having him negotiate the amount down to half of the original amount owed. Afterwards, Tony goes to Melfi's office and, in a daze, [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove blurts out that he loves her]]. She laughs and chalks it up to the side effects of his progress in therapy before scheduling more appointments for him.

Tony meets with Junior later on at a baseball game and successfully persuades him to divvy up the kickback he got from Hesh among the top five capos so that everyone will be happy. Tony visits Hesh afterwards and gives him back his own personal share as well.

Carmela and Tony sit at the pool behind their house that afternoon. He tells her about his progress with therapy, and admits that he isn't sure if he wants to stick with it. Carmela also apologizes for being jealous about Melfi and says that she didn't initially understand what he was going through, but wants to be the most important woman in his life again. Tony tells her that she means everything to him before they embrace.

...and it's revealed that the "waiters" are actually private investigators for the FBI. At a busy office, an investigator is pooling the photos taken at the dinner, and removes [[ContinuityNod Jackie Aprile's photo]] from a bulletin board showing the hierarchy of the [=DiMeo=] family. Junior's photo is moved to the top of the board, while Tony's remains unchanged...

The next morning, Junior is at his tailor's when he receives word that the latter's grandson killed himself by taking drugs from a local dealer, Rusty Irish, and jumping off a bridge in a daze. After talking with Mikey about the matter, Junior decides to make an example out of Rusty and has Mikey and another associate [[KarmicDeath throw him off a bridge]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident and pay the onlookers to claim it was a suicide to the police]]. Junior also goes to visit Livia at the retirement home, and she convinces him to start taxing Hesh Rabkin in order to get under Tony's skin.

** The episode also makes a point of emphasizing that Tony is fascinated with Hesh' horses while they're at his ranch.

-> '''Mikey''': Listen to me, I'm gonna give you a break! I'm gonna give you a break. When I toss you over, if you can fly, I won't shoot you down. Deal?

-> '''Mikey''': Oh my goodness. What happened here? ''[holds cash out, but not within reach, then lets the onlooker take it]''
-> '''Onlooker''': Some sad shit. Motherfucker said he didn't wanna live no more. He jumped.
-> ''[Mikey nods in approval and walks away]''
* MobBossSuitFitting: Junior gets fitted for a new suit. His tailor tells him that the tailor's grandson recently committed suicide due to drugs sold to him by a member of the Soprano crew. Junior promptly has the dealer killed.

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Junior invokes this when he seeks revenge against a drug dealer on the behalf of his tailor. However, the drug dealer happened to be an earner for the Soprano crew which adds to the tension between Junior and his underlings.

* StupidEvil: How the Capos view Junior's decision to have Mikey kill Rusty Irish. Their tendencies towards PragmaticVillainy meant that they regretted the suicide of the tailor's grandson, but not to the point of dispensing with a big earner like Rusty.

* AbsenteeActor: Neither of the Soprano children are present in the episode.

...and it's revealed that the "waiters" are actually private investigators for the FBI. At a busy office, an investigator is pooling the photos taken at the dinner, and removes [[ContinuityNod Jackie Aprile's photo]] from a bulletin board showing the hierarchy of the Soprano family. Junior's photo is moved to the top of the board, while Tony's remains unchanged...

'''Season 1, Episode 05:'''

Tony is playing poker with his capos later that day at Satriale's when Hesh arrives and asks to speak with him privately. Outside, Hesh tells him what happened with Junior's new tax arrangement, and Tony promises to figure something out. That night, plagued with dreams about Melfi and Junior's dealings, Tony takes Carmela out for an anniversary dinner, but uses it as an opportunity to meet with Johnny Sack, the underboss of the Lupertazzi crime family in New York.

Tony meets with Junior later on and successfully persuades him to divvy up the kickback he got from Hesh among the top five capos so that everyone will be happy. Tony visits Hesh afterwards and gives him back his own personal share as well.

* DestinationDefenestration: Rusty Irish, who's thrown off a bridge by Mikey.

-> '''Mikey''': What happened here? ''[holds cash out, but not within reach]''
-> '''Onlooker''': Motherfucker said he didn't wanna live no more.
-> ''[Mikey hands over cash]''

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The instrumental version of "Papparazzi" by Xzibit is playing during the hotel dinner scene where Tony announces his support for Junior as Boss of the family. Besides the fact that the instrumental themes themselves capture the emotions and moods of Mafia power plays in a manner befitting the ''Film/TheGodfather'' movies, the title of the song also coincides with FBI agents discreetly taking pictures of the mob players through hidden cameras.