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"We worry so much. Sometimes it feels like that's all we do, but in the end it just gets washed away."
Carmela Soprano

A.J. has been fired from his job at Blockbuster's for stealing promotional items. His purpose in life, such as there is, remains focused on spending nights in expensive clubs. Both Carmela and Tony ream his ass out, at a loss for what to do with him. Tony also becomes disgusted at the sight of A.J. spending his days on internet chat rooms without any goals or motivation. Tony admits to Dr. Melfi that he hates his son and wishes Carmela had given him more leeway to get tough with him. Dr. Melfi counters that the result could be an angry and abused A.J. taking out his anger on everyone around him, just like Tony. Tony ends up giving A.J. an ultimatum of either starting a construction job the next morning, or moving out.

Tony, although initially reluctant, gives Carmela his blessing to go on a vacation trip with Rosalie. He also gives her a lot of French currency to indulge herself. Carmela and Rosalie have a great time, although the trip is not without its down moments like the cold and rainy weather, the jet lag, and Rosalie losing one of her gloves. Rosalie also gets it on with a handsome young French motorcyclist. Carmela has an epiphany about life being short when it sinks in that Paris is centuries old, and she remembers when Tony asked "Where am I? Where am I going?" during his coma. Carmela later invites Rosalie to talk to her about Jackie Jr., but Rosalie becomes angry and refuses to discuss the matter. Carmela also has a dream about Adriana, which fuels even further Carmela's curiosity about Adriana's fate.

Vito sneaks up on Tony at a mall food court. He proposes a $200,000 fee to Tony and being allowed to operate a meth and prostitute operation in Atlantic City. Pretty much every other Jersey mobster shoots the idea down when Tony tries to bring it up with them. Phil is also outraged at Tony for not killing Vito on sight.

Vito then visits with his family. He tells his children that he's a CIA agent stationed in Afghanistan in a vain effort to spare them the emotional fallout of discovering that he's a Mafioso who's been exiled from Jersey for being homosexual. He expresses the hope to Marie that Tony will accept his offer, and that they can be together again as a family. Vito then tries to call up Johnny Cakes. But Cakes is too angry and hurt to want to have anything further to do with Vito.

Tony ultimately decides that he can't get out of having Vito killed. Allowing Vito to live risks the loss of authority with his own men, and increasing hostility from the Lupertazzi family, now led by Phil. Tony attempts to lure Vito into a trap by pretending to accept the offer and setting up another meeting in the food court, but assigning Carlo the task of taking out Vito.

However, Vito that same night enters his own motel room. He is ambushed and beaten into submission with steel batons by Fat Dom and Gerry of the Lupertazzi family. They also tape gag him so that he can't cry for help. Phil emerges from the closet, and an utterly terrified Vito tries desperately to beg for his life through his gag. Phil nods to Gerry, and Gerry and Fat Dom proceed to beat Vito to death. They also ram a pool cue up Vito's anus as a deliberate message to Tony.

Marie and the children are devastated to learn what happened to Vito after hearing about it through the news. Phil tries to comfort Marie, even while pretending he had nothing to do with Vito's death.

Tony and the other mobsters are also horrified to learn what happened to Vito, with the notable exception of Carlo. Tony and Silvio understand perfectly what message Phil intended: that Phil can do as he pleases to Tony's own capos and made men, and Tony won't be able to do anything about it. They decide to make a move against Phil's gambling racket.

Fat Dom shows up at Satriale's to give Silvio a payment from some gamblers sent by Silvio. He gloats over them about Vito's death, and cracks jokes about the rest of the Jersey mobsters themselves being gay. His behavior greatly annoys Silvio and Carlo, who suggest that he leave. But when Fat Dom responds by continues his joking (including a suggestion that Carlo is gay as well), it proves to be the Rage Breaking Point for both of them. The whole thing escalates to a chaotic melee as Silvio and Carlo gang up on and physically attack Fat Dom, with Carlo grabbing a kitchen knife and stabbing the New York mobster to death. Tony eventually learns what has happened to Fat Dom when he later enters Satriale's, despite Silvio telling him to not come inside, and finds Dom's body hidden under a table cloth. Tony quickly decides to wash his hands of the whole affair, and tells Silvio and Carlo to just get rid of the body however they see fit.

The episode concludes with Vito Jr. and Francesca learning about their father's fate through a newspaper article, and the photographer who took pictures of Vito for the weight loss advertisement recognizing him in the news story.


Tropes:

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: A terrified Vito tries in vain to beg for his life through his duct-taped mouth. A heartless Phil orders the inevitable.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: Mixed with Asshole Victim. While Vito was an unrepentant scumbag and murderer, his final terrified moments before Phil and his men brutally and sadistically beat him to death can evoke pity from the viewers, as he wasn't killed for being a mafioso but for being gay. Even most of the crew is visibly perturbed when they find out, despite already having resolved to have Vito whacked themselves. The reaction of his wife and children only makes it worse.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Did Phil deliberately come out of the motel closet to taunt Vito for being gay?
  • Anxiety Dreams: Carmela has one about Adriana.
  • Anyone Can Die: Vito.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: Tony tries to minimize his own responsibility for what's about to go down on Vito by saying, "If Vito wanted to pursue that lifestyle, he should have done so quietly." Silvio asks, "He was, wasn't he?" and Tony has nothing to say in reply.
  • Asshole Victim: Fat Dom, one of Vito's murderers, goes to Satriale to make a payment to Silvio and begins cracking jokes about the New Jersey mobsters being gay and basically gloating about having killed him. He gets killed over it.
  • Backhanded Compliment: Phil just about reaches the height of passive-aggressiveness when Marie begs him to tell her that Vito was a good man, and Phil says he loved him "like a brother-in-law".
  • Berserk Button: Just the very thought of homosexuality is enough to send Carlo into a murderous rage. And that's before we even get into jokes that imply that he's homosexual, which Fat Dom learns the hard way.
  • Blatant Lies:
    • A.J. telling Carmela everything was "fine" at Blockbuster, despite having been fired for three weeks.
    • Phil pretends he had no part in Vito's death in front of Marie and Patty. "I loved him like a brother-in-law".
  • Bloody Hilarious: Silvio and Carlo taking out Fat Dom is truly something to behold ...
  • Broken-Window Warning: A downplayed example. Tony smashes the window of A.J.'s SUV with a helmet, along with a threat to send the SUV to a chop shop, to emphasize that he's deadly serious about A.J. either taking the construction job or moving out.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Or two dragons, in this case: Fat Dom really didn't think through how Silvio and Carlo would react to his antagonizing them over Vito's murder.
  • Call-Back: Carmela was told that Adriana left Christopher, but her dream suggests that Adriana is dead. In Season 2 Tony's dream reveals the truth about Big Pussy working with the FBI, and in Season 5 a dream indicates that Tony needs to kill his cousin, Tony Blundetto.
  • Club Kid: Marie and Patty seem to believe that Vito and every other gay man must fall into this category.
  • Combat Pragmatist: The beatdown and subsequent killing of Fat Dom begins with Silvio cracking Dom upside the head with a Dustbuster.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • Carmela mentions the time A.J. was being nihilistic and denying God's existence at the time of his confirmation, which happened in "D-Girl".
    • Paulie praises Richie for having been a Heteronormative Crusader.
    • Carmela notices the word "Eloise" in one of the tourist brochures.
    • The photographer who took pictures of Vito for the "Before" and "After" Pictures advertisement recognizes him when the news story about Vito's death comes out.
    • Carmela mentions the time she and Rosalie planned to travel to Italy in "The Knight in White Satin Armor".
    • Carmela reads about Abelard and Heloise in her Paris guidebook and then thinks for a second. Robert Wegler prominently talked to Carmela about a book about Abelard and Heloise in "Sentimental Education".
    • Carmela remembers what Tony spoke immediately after he woke up from his coma in "Join the Club": "Who am I? Where am I going?"
    • In Carmela's dream, Adriana tells her that she found her dog Cosette (in the afterlife). Christopher accidentally suffocated Cosette in "The Strong, Silent Type".
  • Cruel and Unusual Death:
    • Vito enters his hotel room. Fat Dom and Gerry club him into submission with steel batons, and tape gags him so that he can't cry for help. Phil emerges from the closet with a Death Glare and Tranquil Fury focused on Vito. A terrified Vito tries in vain to beg for his life through his gag. Phil nods to Gerry, and both Gerry and Fat Dom proceed to beat Vito to death. A pool cue is stuffed into Vito's anus as a message, but it's unclear if he was still alive when that happened.
    • Fat Dom gets smashed upside the head with a portable vacuum, choked, and stabbed multiple times by Carlo and Silvio for cracking one too many jokes about the Jersey mobsters being gay.
  • Death Glare combined with Tranquil Fury:
    • Phil when he emerges from the hotel closet, and as he's about to order Gerry and Fat Dom to beat Vito to death.
    • Carlo when Fat Dom cracks jokes about Carlo and the Jersey mobsters themselves being homosexuals. If Carlo's eyes had the Power Of Hate, he would have reduced Fat Dom to a puddle of blubber on the floor well before it ever got to stabbing him to death.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Phil for all intents and purposes becomes the boss of the Lupertazzi family.
  • Dramatic Irony:
    • Johnny Cakes assumes Vito wants to go back to Jersey, apparently with the idea of Vito being a bigger boss there than he really was.
    • Phil rushes to take out Vito on the assumption that Tony was going to continue to tolerate Vito's homosexuality. Little did he know that Tony already had a hit set up on Vito.
  • Dreaming the Truth: Carmela has a dream where she's forced to confront the possibility that Adriana was killed. Previously, she'd been led to believe that the latter had abandoned the family.
  • Due to the Dead: Carmela notices that Rosalie occasionally lights two candles, one in honor of Jackie Sr. and one in honor of Jackie Jr.
  • Eiffel Tower Effect: The sights seen in Paris besides the Eiffel Tower: The taxi is driving Carmela and Rosalie on the Champs-Elysees towards the Arc de Triomphe. Later, Notre Dame Cathedral is shown in the background. The Palais-Royal gardens and the Pont Alexandre III bridge are visited. The church where the candles were lit is St. Eustache. The women have dinner at Le Grand Véfour restaurant. Rosalie consoles Carmela at the Thermes de Cluny. Additionally, Carmela says they should visit the Louvre.
  • Empty Nest: Carmela starts having this kind of reaction to Meadow wanting to move in with Finn in California.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Johnny Cakes feels deeply betrayed by Vito leaving him.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
    • Vito visits Marie and his children, invents a cover story about being a CIA agent in Afghanistan to spare their feelings, and holds onto the hope that he can eventually be reunited with them.
    • He also feels bad about leaving Johnny Cakes in the lurch, but Cakes wants nothing more to do with him.
    • Tony had been friends with Vito, and really struggles with the weighty decision over Vito's fate.
    • Phil seems to care for his own cousin, Marie, on some level. Although he's responsible for her emotional devastation following Vito's death, he takes it on himself to make the funerary arrangements.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Despite having planned on putting a hit on Vito beforehand, the DiMeo crew, with the exception of Carlo, are shown to be disgusted with how prolonged and cruel his death ended up being.
  • Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Rosalie certainly seems to think so. She can't help herself when she meets a handsome French motorcyclist.
  • Evil Gloating: Fat Dom can't help himself when it comes to rubbing Vito's death in Silvio's and Carlo's faces.
  • Family Honor: Phil's order to have Vito beaten to death was motivated by erasing the shame of Vito having been married to Phil's own cousin, Marie.
  • Feud Episode: Tony's and Phil's professional relationship was never the best. But this episode sees it deteriorate even further.
    • First, they squabble over construction no-show jobs and the poor state of the vitamins that they jacked.
    • Phil loses it on Tony for not killing Vito on sight.
    • Phil then proceeds to unilaterally have Vito beaten to death. He disregards the rules that require seeking permission through a sit-down before murdering a made man from another Mafia family.
    • He also has a pool cue rammed up Vito's anus to send a message to Tony. And the message is clear, "I can take out any of your capos or made men on my whim, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it".
  • Flipping the Bird: A.J., to Tony's back.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Paulie expresses disapproval over Chris going to AA meetings and spending less time at the Bing and Satriale's.
    • Tony tells Silvio that he's going to retaliate, but not in a way that involves killing one of Phil's made guys, since that will just invite an all-out Mob War. Then Fat Dom walks into Satriale's ...
  • Heteronormative Crusader:
    • Patty Leotardo, even more so than Phil.
    • Phil is outraged at Tony for not killing Vito the moment he turned up again in New Jersey.
    • Tony selects Carlo for the hit on Vito precisely because Carlo is a standout Crusader.
    • But Phil gets in first and has Fat Dom and Gerry beat Vito to death with steel batons.
  • Homophobic Hate Crime: Vito is brutally murdered and sodomized by Phil and his men for being a homosexual.
  • Hope Spot: The prospect of starting over in Atlantic City, possibly with his family back, becomes one for Vito. It gets crushed in the worst way possible.
  • Horrifying the Horror: The Jersey mobsters cannot be thought of as anything but amoral Villain Protagonists who often get a pass from viewers only because they're up against guys who are even worse. They are perfectly willing to commit murder and all other kinds of crimes at the drop of a hat when they see the need for it. But all of them, with the notable exception of Carlo, cringe and shudder when they learn the full details of what Phil did to Vito.
  • Hypocrite: A.J. stealing promotion items from Blockbuster sounds like a lot of Tony's own scams and scores, just with poorer execution.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: Tony orders a shot at the Bing after ordering a hit on Vito.
  • I Was Never Here: After setting eyes on Fat Dom's dead body, Tony quickly flees and makes gestures to this effect, while keeping quiet in case of microphones.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Carlo, albeit with Silvio holding from behind, stabs Fat Dom with a kitchen knife over and over and over again until Dom finally falls dead on the table.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Tony correctly assesses that Phil is constantly driven by an "alpha of the pack" mentality. Phil always has to try and project an image of tough authority to hold onto being Boss of the Lupertazzi family, even if it leads to less than practical decisions.
  • Irony: Carlo is all for killing Vito, but ends up unknowingly helping to avenge him when he kills Fat Dom.
  • It's Not You, It's Me: Vito tries to justify himself to Johnny Cakes on this basis, but Cakes is completely done with Vito.
  • Jerkass:
    • Phil goes out of his way to antagonize Tony every chance he gets. And of course, he also has Vito beaten to death for being gay.
    • Fat Dom participates in the murder of Vito, then arrives at Satriale's to gloat about it. He also taunts Silvio and Carlo with jokes that imply that the Jersey mobsters must by association themselves be homosexual. Unsurprisingly, this prompts Silvio and Carlo to attack and kill him.
  • Karmic Death: Fat Dom participated in brutally beating Vito to death. He gets brutally stabbed to death, and as a direct consequence of gloating over the Jersey mobsters about Vito's death.
  • Killed Off for Real: Vito, Fat Dom.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Fat Dom takes part in the killing of Vito, but ends up joining him in death soon afterwards when he implies that Sil and Carlo were also gay.
  • Lazy Bum: A.J., after getting fired from Blockbuster, does nothing but go on chatrooms at day wearing nothing but his shorts and clubbing at night.
  • Learned from the News: How Marie and Vito's children learn of his death. And they're devastated...
  • Living Lie Detector: Phil learns that Vito is in town just by picking up a vibe from Marie.
  • Love Hurts: Johnny Cakes is really hurting after Vito leaves him. So much so that he tells Vito never to contact him again.
  • Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Vito tells his children that he's a CIA agent stationed in Afghanistan. He's trying to spare them the emotions that would follow from knowing their father is an exiled Mafiaso marked for death for being homosexual. Vito's intentions unravel the instant he dies.
  • Lured into a Trap: Tony pretends to be open to Vito's offer and sets up another meeting in the food court. It's a setup for Carlo to do the hit on Vito. But it ultimately gets averted when Phil gets to Vito first.
  • Mrs. Robinson: Carmela seems taken aback when Rosalie hits it off with a local French motorcyclist. She asks her friend: "You're not really gonna go out with him, are you? He's like 26 years old." Rosalie's unabashed reply: "Duh!"
  • My God, What Have I Done?: There's no mistaking that Phil is a Hate Sink, a Jerkass, a Sadist, a Blood Knight, and a Sociopath. But the episode drops the hint that there may still be enough of a human being inside of Phil to have at least a little bit of conscience over having Vito brutally murdered. He is shown unable to go to sleep with his eyes staring at the ceiling, while Patty is sound asleep beside him.
  • Nature vs. Nurture: Discussed between Tony and Carmela. Tony thinks the two of them spoiling A.J. while he was growing up is what caused him to become such a Lazy Bum. Carmela points out that most of the kids he went to school with were just as spoiled and they're all currently attending prestigious colleges.
  • Never My Fault:
    • Tony tries to foist the blame for the whole situation onto Vito himself.
    • Silvio and Carlo predictably blame each other for having the principal role in Fat Dom's murder, once Tony arrives at Satriale's and is soaking in the sight of the corpse.
  • Nostalgia Filter: Paulie is certainly of the view, with Vito being homosexual and Chris going to AA meetings, that The Mafia just ain't what it used to be. "Salvatore Luciana (Lucky Luciano) must be looking down on all of us with great pride."
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • Vito is utterly terrified when Phil emerges from the hotel closet and realizes that Phil fully intends to have him killed.
    • Silvio, when he hears Tony knocking on the door of Satriale's just after he and Carlo have wasted Fat Dom but before having a chance to get rid of his body.
    • Tony, when he sees Fat Dom's very dead corpse in Satriale's.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Vito would probably have needed more than just a pair of Cool Shades if he wanted to return to New Jersey undetected.
  • Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Tony is relatively tolerant of Vito's homosexuality compared to some of the other mobsters. And he would otherwise be ok with Vito starting over at a two-hours away Atlantic City. But pressure from both his own men and the Lupertazzi family led by Phil eventually persuades him to order a hit on Vito.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Tony, although initially reluctant, gives Carmela his blessing to go on the trip to Paris with Rosalie.
    • And he also gives her a LOT of French currency for the trip.
    • Phil arranges the funeral for Vito so that Marie doesn't need to concern herself with it. Although he's the one who had Vito killed and is responsible for the emotional devastation that Marie feels afterward.
  • Political Overcorrectness: How Tony sees contemporary new age approaches to parenting. He wishes Carmela had allowed him a license to give A.J. some Tough Love, otherwise A.J. might not have turned out to be such a listless Lazy Bum and Spoiled Brat. Dr. Melfi counters that it might also lead to A.J. becoming an angry and abused young man who takes things out on those around him just like Tony. Melfi also points out that Carmela protecting A.J. from Tony is in fact what a younger Tony often wished Livia had done for him against the abuses of Johnny Boy.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain:
    • Tony refers to the French as "frogs".
    • And even if he isn't a murderously intolerant Heteronormative Crusader like say, Carlo or Phil, he's still pretty insensitive to Vito about the matter of his homosexuality.
    • And of course, Phil is enraged at Tony for not killing Vito the instant he turned up again in Jersey.
    • And Phil proceeds to have Vito beaten to death for being gay.
    • Carlo in turn is ecstatic when he hears what Phil did to Vito.
    • Fat Dom participates in the murder of Vito. Then he heads over to Satriale's to do some Evil Gloating to Silvio and Carlo about it.
    • Tony taunts A.J. for wearing hoodies and clothing marketed on the "mulignan" rap stars that A.J. likes so much.
  • Precision F-Strike: Johnny Cakes greets Vito's phone call with one.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Phil to Vito, "You're a fuckin' disgrace!"
  • Rule of Symbolism:
    • Tony and Phil meet again near the statue of Lou Costello with a baseball bat.
    • Phil parts the doors of the motel closet to reveal himself to Vito after Fat Dom and Gerry have clubbed Vito into submission. Does the act of coming out of the closet mean that Phil is himself Late Coming Out? Is he revealing that he himself is an Armored Closet Gay without realizing it?
  • Sadist: Phil showed shades of this in earlier episodes but it becomes fully apparent here; he has Vito killed in a needlessly over-the-top and brutal fashion for no apparent reason than For the Evulz, and personally oversees the hit just so he could taunt Vito and watch him die in person. He even has hints of a Psychotic Smirk on his face as he watches Vito being beaten to death by his men.
  • Sadistic Choice, and ultimately informed by Pragmatic Villainy: Tony, everything else being equal, would be okay with Vito bringing in money through a meth and prostitute operation in Atlantic City. But he ultimately decides that it's not worth risking a mutiny from his own men, and the hassle of increasing hostility from Phil and the rest of the Lupertazzi family. Tony orders Vito's death, although Phil beats him to the punch.
  • Scenery Porn: Carmela and Rosalie really soak in the sights of Paris.
  • Shoot the Dog: Tony is forced to put a hit out on Vito to placate his own men and the New York mobsters despite Vito being his best earner. Phil beats him to it.
  • Spoiled Brat: Another of A.J.'s justifications for stealing from Blockbuster and getting fired is that minimum wage wasn't enough to sustain his expensive clubbing lifestyle.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Chris and Silvio are quick to assume that Vito had this going on towards Tony, even though Vito had the much more plausible reason of trying to avoid detection by people who want him dead.
  • Stealing from the Till: The reason A.J. got fired from Blockbuster.
  • Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids: A.J. kept telling Carmela everything was "fine" at Blockbuster, even though he got fired from there three weeks beforehand.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: Tony's son is a Lazy Bum and a Spoiled Brat. Phil and the other New York mobsters jerk Tony's chain every chance they get. Neither Tony's own men nor the New York mobsters will ever let Vito start over in distant Atlantic City, even though it would mean a steady stream of cash. Then Silvio, his trusted Consigliere of all people, and Carlo create another problem for Tony by taking out a made man from New York without authorization. His feeling of being Surrounded By Idiots 24/7 is definitely amplified in this episode.
  • Take a Third Option: The Sadistic Choice facing Tony is whether to let Vito back in but risk The Mutiny from his own men, and hostility from Phil and New York, or kill Vito who had previously been his best earner. Vito tries to offer a Third Option to Tony. A $200,000 fee, and working meth and prostitutes a two-hour away Atlantic City. Problem is that pressure from both his own men and from New York ends up convincing Tony that it doesn't work as a valid Third Option.
  • Tap on the Head: Silvio smashes a Dust Buster over Fat Dom's head, which leads to Carlo stabbing Dom to death.
  • Tempting Fate: How could Fat Dom possibly think it was a good idea to walk into Satriale's and repeatedly taunt Silvio and Carlo about the Jersey mobsters being homosexual?
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Carlo stabs Fat Dom over and over and over again, and does not stop until Dom falls dead on the table.
  • They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Rosalie angrily shuts down Carmela's efforts to talk about Jackie Jr.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Fat Dom could have left Satriale's alive had he either regarded Silvio's verbal warnings or Carlo's Death Glare. But no, he has to crack one more joke about Carlo being homosexual.
  • Tough Love: Tony forces A.J. to take up a construction labor job through his connections or move out.
  • The Un-Favorite: Tony stops himself just a little short of outright disowning A.J. But he certainly makes no bones about telling Dr. Melfi that he has come to just plain hate A.J. altogether.
  • Vacation Episode: Carmela and Rosalie go on a trip to Paris together.
  • Visual Pun: When Vito is ambushed in the motel to be executed for his homosexuality, Phil, who organized the hit, ironically comes out from the closet in which he was hiding, as a subtle nod to Vito's homosexuality and the persecution for his sexuality.
  • Waxing Lyrical: When Tony hears it's been raining in Paris, he replies "When it drizzles!", a line from the 1953 Cole Porter song "I Love Paris."
  • We All Die Someday: Carmela is hit with the reality that the city of Paris is centuries old, and becomes a reminder that mortal lives are insignificant next to many other things that endure in the physical world. She also remembers when Tony was asking "Where am I? Where am I going?" when he was still in a coma.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Fat Dom.
  • Wham Episode: A main character in Vito is brutally murdered by Phil and his Lupertazzi henchmen, in disregard for rules requiring a sit-down and authorization before a made man can be touched. Silvio and Carlo in turn impulsively murder one of Vito's killers, likewise without authorization. Tony and Phil's professional relationship deteriorates even further on account of Vito and other matters. The dam hasn't burst just yet, but everything is now gravitating towards an all-out war between New Jersey and New York.
  • Wham Shot: Many first-time viewers thought Carlo was going to carry out the inevitable hit on Vito in the food court the next day. It was quite a shock when Vito casually goes back to his motel room only to get clubbed into submission, see Phil emerge from the closet, and get beaten to death on Phil's orders.
  • You Do Not Want To Know: Silvio tries to tell Tony not to come into Satriale's, but Tony insists. The sight of Fat Dom's corpse has Tony wishing he had taken Silvio's advice.

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