History Recap / TheSopranosS6E20TheBlueComet

* ForWantOfANail: If only Bobby took his cellphone with him before he entered the store ...

** Tony refuses to pay for Uncle Junior to live at Wycoff. He mocks Janice's request by offering her a dollar bill and then telling her "Exile on Main Street", the name of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} album. It's his way of saying Bobby and Janice can take their request and screw themselves with it.
** Tony is absolutely brutal about forcing A.J. to pack up and leave the house. Although given the severity of the situation, you could make a case for it being ToughLove too.
** Elliot blatantly manipulates Melfi and breaks her confidentiality agreement while at dinner with colleagues. Though it is CruelToBeKind, it's also illegal and will likely make him lose Melfi as a client.

* WhamEpisode: The tensions between New York and New Jersey finally erupt into a war, where Phil authorizes a hit on Tony, Silvio, and Bobby. As a result, Bobby is shot to death inside a toy train store, Silvio is ambushed outside the Bada Bing where he falls into a coma that he might not wake up from, and Tony goes into hiding with the remnants of his crew. Additionally, Melfi realizes Tony is beyond help and finally decides to cut all ties with him.

* IdiotBall: Paulie chews Silvio out for not having his phone on all night; apparently Sil's wife Gabby was feeling poorly. In the middle of a MobWar that could get him killed, not to mention the same night a strike against the enemy camp at the highest level is going down, you'd think NumberTwo would keep a better line of communication open.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tony notices that A.J. is doing internet research on UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.

** Tony to Carmela, "I quit therapy."

** Dr. Melfi stirs uncomfortably in her chair when one of her colleagues relates another study about how sociopaths "quite glibly engage on key issues like mother, family."

* DecapitatedArmy: Phil's approach to the MobWar is to have Tony, Silvio and Bobby assassinated, and then co-opt the remainder of the Jersey mob as subordinate business partners. "Plain and simple, we decapitate and we do business with whatever's left."

* {{Malaproper}}: Phil, "Let me tell you a couple of three things."

* WaxingLyrical: Tony's comment to Jennifer Melfi, "You don't need a gynecologist to know the way the wind blows" references lyrics from Music/BobDylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues": "You don't need a weatherman to know the way the wind blows."

* WhamLine: Phil, "There's no scraps in my scrapbook. Make it happen."

* PoorCommunicationKills: Italo communicated crucial pieces of information to Corky, that [[TheMistress the goomah]] addressed the old man in the house as "Daddy", and that they spoke Ukrainian. Had either Corky or Patsy clued in that it meant Phil was alive and well, Tony could have given the order to go to the safe houses sooner. And that meant Bobby and Silvio could have avoided their fates.

* MurderByMistake: Tony entrusts Italo and Salvatore to kill Phil. Unfortunately, thanks to some false information, they kill the father of Phil's goomah, along with the Goomah.

* MistakenIdentity: Italo and Salvatore murder the father of Phil's goomah, and [[TheMistress the Goomah]] herself, instead of Phil. They acted on the flawed information they received from Corky and Paulie. It doesn't help that the father bears an uncanny resemblance to Phil himself.

* MistakenIdentity: Italo and Salvatore murder the father of Phil's Goomah, and [[TheMistress the Goomah]] herself, instead of Phil. They acted on the flawed information they received from Corky and Paulie. It doesn't help that the father bears an uncanny resemblance to Phil himself.

** Tony brings in Italo and Salvatore from Italy to take out [[ArchEnemy Phil]]. But they end up murdering Phil's [[TheMistress Goomah]] and her father by mistake after receiving faulty information from Corky and Paulie.

* MurderByMistake: Tony entrusts Italo and Salvatore to kill Phil. Unfortunately, thanks to some false information, they kill the father of Phil's Goomah, along with the Goomah.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Italo communicated crucial pieces of information to Corky, that [[TheMistress the Goomah]] addressed the old man in the house as "Daddy", and that they spoke Ukrainian. Had either Corky or Patsy clued in that it meant Phil was alive and well, Tony could have given the order to go to the safe houses sooner. And that meant Bobby and Silvio could have avoided their fates.

** Paulie has a low opinion of Phil's Goomah and didn't mind her becoming collateral damage, considering her a drunken embarrassment.

* DeadlyDelivery: How Italo and Salvatore make an initial approach against Phil's [[TheMistress Goomah]] and her father.

* LearnedFromTheNews: Paulie and Silvio learn that the hit on Phil missed its target when Chris' former sponsor shows them a newspaper article on the Goomah and her father getting murdered.

* IJustWantToBeBadass: Dr. Melfi's colleagues exhibit shades of it when they become curious about and fascinated with Dr. Melfi's work with Tony.

* IdiotBall: Paulie chews Silvio out for not having his phone on all night; apparently Gabby was poorly. In the middle of a MobWar that could get him killed, not to mention the same night a strike against the enemy camp at the highest level is going down, you'd think NumberTwo would keep a better line of communication open.

* ForWantOfANail: If only Bobby took his cellphone with him before he entered the store ...
* {{Flashback}}: Tony gazes at the AR-10 Assault Rifle that Bobby gave him for his birthday. He then remembers [[Recap/TheSopranosS6E13SopranoHomeMovies when he and Bobby were out on the lake in a boat, discussing the probable fate of anyone in the Mafia]].

* EnemyMine: Neither Tony nor Agent Harris has any love for Phil, so they start to work together against him. It begins with Harris warning Tony that Phil is planning something against Tony and those closest to him.

* AnyoneCanDie: The series doesn't disappoint by having probably the [[NiceGuy nicest]] and most sympathetic of the main characters killed off, Bobby.

Silvio and Patsy attempt to leave the Bada Bing, but they are intercepted by two other New York hitmen before they can get out of the parking lot. Silvio is shot multiple times and winds up in the hospital barely alive. Patsy manages to escape alive. Tony and Paulie later learn that Silvio is in a coma, and is unlikely to regain consciousness.