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"Here's the point to remember: my face will be the last one you see, not Tony's. We understand each other? It won't be cinematic."
Patsy Parisi

While visiting the Met with Meadow, Carmela's period begins. After borrowing one of Meadow's tampons she asks casually about her relationship with Jackie, Jr. and is shocked to learn that Meadow left him. Carmela then gazes at a Jusepe de Ribera painting, "The Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria", and fixates on an image of the baby Jesus, moved to tears at the sight.

Gloria Trillo ambushes Tony in the parking garage of Dr. Melfi's building, begging him to take her back. Eventually Tony relents, and they resume their passionate affair. Gloria's neuroses persist. When she begins discussing the potentially unhealthy emotional attachment to her niece and nephew, Tony tunes out, preferring to ignore Gloria's troubled personality and enjoy the wild sex. Tony describes the relationship to Dr. Melfi during a session. Melfi still refrains from divulging any of her information about Gloria, but focuses on Tony's perception of her, seeing a sort of morbid fascination in his attraction to her.

Jackie Jr. plunges into deeper involvement with the mob as he starts kicking up to Ralph Cifaretto, who is dating his mother. Christopher also offers Jackie Jr. work if he's ever in the market for it. Later when Jackie praises Christopher to his friend Dino at home, Ralph overhears and downplays Christopher's success as nepotism, telling Jackie and Dino the story of how when they were younger, Tony, Silvio, and Jackie Sr. robbed a card game to get themselves ahead and on the fast track to getting made. Jackie Jr. is awe-struck by the tale, but quickly afterward sours toward Ralphie when he tells Jackie to do the dishes.

Gloria's unstable personality again gets in the way of her relationship with Tony. Carmela coincidentally visits the Globe Motors where Gloria works, and upon hearing her last name Gloria quickly approaches her as a friendly salesperson, offering to give Carmela a ride home while her car is getting worked on. As Carmela describes her domestic life and children in the car, Gloria has a suppressed fit of jealousy and drives over the speed limit, potentially endangering Carmela's life. Later, when Tony is leaving Gloria's house they find her tires slashed outside her home. When Tony hesitates to mention a time his former goomah Irina pulled a similar stunt, Gloria escalates into another confrontational mind game. Finally, Gloria calls Carmela at home, ostensibly to see if she's interested in a new car. When Carmela innocently mentions the encounter to Tony, he storms into the car dealership and physically intimidates Gloria, saying they're through.

Carmela's emotions continue to run away with her, and she finds herself tearing up at a pet food commercial. Hoping to ease her conscience, she goes to confession, visiting a priest named Father Obosi rather than Father Intintola. Carmela at first expresses paranoia that she has ovarian cancer, but eventually confesses her tremendous guilt over being married to a man like Tony after her encounter with the morally hardline Dr. Krakawer, asking Obosi if divorce is permissible by the church in her situation. Obosi is sympathetic to her plight but reaffirms the sanctity of marriage, recommending that she make peace with Tony's crimes and immorality by "learning to live on what the good part earns". Carmela finally visits an OB-GYN, and he diagnoses that she has a non-fatal thyroid problem.

Jackie Jr. identifies a card game run by Eugene Pontecorvo, a member of Ralph's crew, as an opportunity for him and Dino to prove themselves the way the previous generation did. Though Dino is reluctant, Jackie eventually talks him into robbing the card game along with their associate Carlo. They commission drug dealer Matush as a getaway driver and smoke crack before the robbery. Busting in on the game with guns and ski masks, they find that Christopher, Furio and other major players are present, and Christopher seems to recognize Jackie's voice. The card dealer, Sunshine, mocks the boys with a plethora of quotes and platitudes while bagging the money. One quote - "Success has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan" - strikes a nerve with Jackie, who shoots Sunshine in the chest, killing him and sparking a chaotic shootout. Matush abandons the robbers after hearing the gunfire. Christopher kills Carlo and Jackie shoots Furio in the leg as he and Dino flee. Jackie carjacks a passerby and abandons Dino. Christopher and Albert Barese shoot Dino multiple times in the face before heading out with Furio, whose leg wound is treated by Dr. Ira Fried, a urologist connected with the Soprano family.

The same night as the botched robbery, Gloria calls Tony desperately sobbing and incoherent, and he breaks down and visits her. He attempts to end their relationship on amicable terms, but Gloria bristles and changes her tune, taunting him cruelly and threatening to tell his wife and kids about the affair. Tony snaps and attacks Gloria, choking her. She begs him to kill her but he lets go of her and leaves. The next morning he sends Patsy Parisi to intimidate Gloria. Patsy pulls over with Gloria in a Globe Motors car, points a gun at her, and tells her in frank, crude terms how he will be the one to kill her if she ever contacts Tony again. Gloria is left shaken and terrified by the encounter.

Tony meets with the men involved in the botched robbery. Christopher demands blood and has an explosive encounter with Tony, who ruthlessly puts him in his place when Chris claims he no longer loves him - Tony dismisses Christopher's love but demands his respect. He then meets with Ralphie, who feigns ignorance about how Jackie Jr. was led astray. Tony shows him the gun he found on Jackie's person, with the implicit suggestion that he knows Ralph gave it to him and tells Ralph that it's up to him how to deal with Jackie. Tony ironically invokes Ralph's long-coveted captain status in assigning him the responsibility of dealing with the difficult situation when it's clear Jackie has to go, but Ralph is dating the boy's mother. Ralph goes to a devastated Rosalie's home and begins fabricating a story of how Jackie got involved with dangerous drug dealers.

Tony returns home to Carmela, noticing something different about her - she has taken Father Obosi's advice to heart and wears none of the extravagant jewelry she's accumulated. She is also reading a book on how to become a real estate agent.

Tropes:

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Dino when he gets cornered by Chris.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Dr. Melfi tries to hint to Tony that Gloria is drawn to him as a "captain of industry" and "tough guy", thereby hinting that Gloria has plenty of issues that make her too damaged to have a real relationship with.
  • Back-Alley Doctor: Dr. Fried is on Tony's payroll to provide emergency services in those situations where taking a wounded member of the crime family to an emergency ward would end up attracting police attention. He is called on to provide those services, even being forced to drop a commercial he was in the middle of shooting after Furio gets shot in the leg.
  • Berserk Button: Sunshine unknowingly presses Jackie's with the line, "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan". Jackie yells "Shut the fuck up!", which reveals Jackie has issues over Jackie Sr. dying relatively young of cancer. It also becomes plot-relevant as the outburst leads to Chris being able to recognize the voice as Jackie's.
    • Gloria presses Tony's when she derides Carmela as a "goombah housewife"; he smacks her for the insult and things only escalate from there.
  • Black-and-Gray Morality: Carmela's struggles, and Father Obosi's advice regarding that those struggles, based on a realization that the world is a "complex place", definitely invoke this trope.
  • Blasphemous Boast: Jackie Aprile Jr. to his getaway driver before robbing the card game:
    I don't care if God passes by, you do not move this car.
    • But averted in that Jackie Aprile Jr. is in fact a Too Dumb to Live Darwin Award contender that has little claim to such authority.
  • Blatant Lies: Ralph tries to tell Rosalie that Jackie is fine for the moment but is addicted to cocaine and trapped in debt to drug dealers so as to deflect blame for the inevitable away from himself and the other mobsters.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Chris takes out Carlo with one, and with Improbable Aiming Skills to boot. Then he takes out Dino execution-style after the latter gets left behind by Jackie.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Subverted. Ralph tries to negotiate a "Pass" for Jackie from Tony. Not that he particularly cares for Jackie, but because he still wants to milk Jackie as an asset to damage Tony further. Further, Jackie is Rosalie's son, and a distressed or unstable Rosalie (who Ralph is dating) could be detrimental to his own Social Climber ambitions. Tony, however, shuts it all down with the Double Speak order to eliminate Jackie.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Tony pulls out the gun that Ralph gave to Jackie, to punctuate the order to get rid of Jackie.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Christopher, who is usually on drugs or anything but sober, shows that he is a very good shot during Jackie Jr.'s robbery of Eugene's card game.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Sunshine during the card game robbery. Problem was he didn't know when to stop.
  • Death Seeker:
    • Gloria Driving Like Crazy with Carmela in the passenger side indicates she was definitely contemplating a crash that would Take Carmela With Her as well.
    • Gloria's repeatedly begging Tony to kill her in dramatic fashion while he's got his hand wrapped around her throat certainly qualifies as a prime example.
  • Destructive Romance: Tony's and Gloria's is clinically diagnosed as such; Amour fou (Crazy love).
  • Dirty Coward: Both Matush and Jackie Jr. prove awfully eager to abandon their fellow crew members to their fates when the robbery goes south.
  • Dramatically Missing the Point: Ralph tells Jackie Jr. the story of Jackie Sr., Tony, and Silvio robbing Feech LaManna's card game as an example of how Jackie Jr. could fast-track his career by doing something big. Instead, Jackie Jr.'s takeaway is that he should try doing the same exact thing, not realizing that his current circumstances aren't the same as that group and that there were many ways their robbery could have gone wrong. Naturally, his own attempt backfires horribly.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Gloria flirts with this trope while driving Carmela home. Ties in with Death Seeker and Green-Eyed Monster as well.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Invoked by Patsy Parisi when threatening Gloria: Patsy's insistence that her death will be at the hands of a boring mook like him rather than Tony, and "it won't be cinematic", is what finally gets to her.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Jackie Jr. finally decides to go out and earn some respect the same way his father did. It goes horribly.
  • Evil Mentor: Combined with The Corrupter. Ralph plants the idea in Jackie Jr.'s head of doing something big to fast-track his intended rise in the Jersey mob, by telling him how Jackie Sr., Tony, and Silvio made their big break by robbing Feech LaManna's card game. Tony himself sneers at Ralph's corruptive mentoring of Jackie when they sit down to discuss his fate.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Ralph drops the name of Feech LaManna, a character who will show up in season 5.
    • Rosalie isn't enjoying her Calamari salad because she thinks Artie used the wrong olive oil for it. It heralds a future episode where Artie's status as the Supreme Chef will be called into question.
    • Carmela, Rosalie, Angie, and Gabriella whine during a restaurant dinner about all of their husbands cheating on them. That leads to a Shout-Out to the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal. And from there the conversation considers how Hillary Clinton has since become a politically powerful personage in her own right quite apart from Bill. The camera makes a point of lingering on Angie, and more than once.
    • Carmela is reading up on real estate, and her eyes linger on a page dealing with real estate scams. There will be more than one in play in the future, and not just the Esplanade.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Patsy oozes this as he threatens Gloria, and it makes his Offer She Can't Refuse that much more terrifying.
  • Gilligan Cut: Carmela, while getting an examination for ovarian cancer, tells Dr. Rotelli to tell her the truth straight up no matter how painful or uncomfortable it may be for her. Cut to Jackie Jr. and Dino watching a televised interview of Vanilla Ice, who tells the interviewer he does not feel comfortable with everybody knowing about his personal life.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Gloria goes into Drives Like Crazy mode the more she learns about Carmela's marriage to Tony and their children (she has none), enough to contemplate Death Seeker and Taking Carmela With Her.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Carmela takes a few spins through one of her own on account of her Heroic BSoD. Father Obosi's advice allows her to navigate it by Taking a Third Option, remaining tied to Tony but not wearing the flashy and expensive gifts that his blood money buys.
  • Heroic BSoD: The episode itself is effectively one for Carmela, who struggles even more over the repercussions of being married to a mobster like Tony. Fears that she may be suffering from ovarian cancer, which her sister died of trigger the BSOD.
  • History Repeats: Subverted. Just as his father fast-tracked his mafia career by robbing Feech LaManna's card game, so Jackie hopes that robbing Eugene's poker game will lead to a similarly meteoric rise. It doesn't work out ...
  • Hypocrite: Chris accuses Tony of being one on the mistaken perception that he's going to give Jackie a break just cause his last name is Aprile. Chris seems to forget that he himself has gotten breaks and passes that he wouldn't have otherwise gotten but for being so closely related to Tony.
  • I Coulda Been a Contender!: Ralph regrets that an STD prevented him from participating in hitting the Feech card game along with Tony, Jackie Sr., and Silvio. That robbery had been the breakthrough for the latter three.
  • Irony: Jackie Jr. disses Vanilla Ice as a one-hit-wonder with limited talent and a Small Name, Big Ego that nobody remembers anymore. He has no idea how true those observations will be about himself.
  • Jerkass Has a Point:
    • Tony admits Dr. Melfi was onto something when he realizes Gloria is a lot more like Livia than he was willing to admit. He even later admits that Gloria became a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Irina, as Dr. Melfi previously pointed out.
    • Ralph mocks Jackie Jr. for refusing to accept responsibility for flunking out of Rutgers, pointing out that it's ridiculous for him to have expected Tony to shake down the college's administrators to keep him enrolled instead of just buckling down and studying.
  • Killed Off for Real: Recurring characters Dino Zerilli and Sunshine the card dealer.
  • Lame Pun Reaction:
    • Tony cracks a joke about the British government not wanting to create a 'stampede' on account of the public knowing about Mad Cow Disease. Carmela cracks a smile, but her reaction is definitely one of Dude, Not Funny!
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Furio gave Dominic a Knee Capping during season 2. He gets shot in the leg this episode.
  • Leitmotif: An interesting example - "Sposa Son Disprezzeta", the opera song that played over the credits in "Pine Barrens", picks up again at the beginning of this episode, now playing diegetically over Carm and Meadow's visit to the Met.
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse: Dr. Melfi continues to press the point that his Goomahs share a lot of traits with Livia. And while Tony is willing to a degree concede that she has a point, he adamantly refuses to admit to any kind of sexual complexes that get stirred precisely because his Goomahs actually do resemble Livia.
  • Liquid Courage: Or "meth" courage as the case may be. Jackie and company get themselves high on meth in order to be able to see the robbery through. May have backfired on them as it may have made at least Jackie Trigger-Happy.
  • Living Lie Detector: Tony doesn't for one second buy Gloria's promises that she'll behave from now on, as a desperate plea to him to take her back. He knows her Character Tics well enough by now (e.g. "See, there's that tone") to realize that Gloria is trying to conceal her repressed anger underneath a facade of playing nice.
  • Make Sure He's Dead: Dino was already dead after getting a few head shots from both Chris and Albert. But Chris, on the heels of his ordeal in the Pine Barrens, makes a point of walking up to Dino's body and firing a few more rounds into him. You know, just to be sure ...
  • The Malaproper: An especially hilarious one when Tony refers to amour fou as "our mo-fo".
  • Manipulative Bastard: Ralph strokes Jackie Jr.'s ego with the hopes that Jackie Jr. can inflict as much damage as possible to Tony and company. Has shades of The Starscream as well.
  • Meaningful Echo: Gloria thinks she can intimidate Patsy by proclaiming that it would be "standard operating procedure" for her car dealership to call the cops if she's not back within 10 minutes. Patsy begins his threat with "Here's some standard operating procedure".
  • My Biological Clock Is Ticking: This turns out to be a part of Gloria's issues, when she tells Tony about having a great relationship with her nephew and niece, only to now be cut off from any access to them. She mentions an animosity towards her brother-in-law and claims he's on treatment for substance abuse, but never really explains why she was cut off, giving it shades of Never My Fault. Further confirmed when Carmela talking about her children awakens the Green-Eyed Monster in Gloria and sends her into Drives Like Crazy mode.
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse: Gloria would love nothing more than a dramatic death at the hands of the man of her dreams. Tony, aided by insights gleaned from his therapy sessions with Dr. Melfi, realizes that nothing would scare her more than a boring death at the hands of a plain-looking or even ugly mook she would have no interest in. Patsy Parisi shows up as a potential customer and warns her that if she so much as comes anywhere close to Tony or his family or has any communications with any of them, the last face she sees will be his as he kills her. It won't be Tony's face. And boy does it ever work.
  • Offing the Mouth: While Jackie and two accomplices are robbing the Pontecorvo poker game at gunpoint, Sunshine heckles them in an attempt to make them leave. Jackie shoots him, which mostly seems to be an act of panic.
  • Oh, Crap!: Dino when he gets left behind, combined with Cluster F-Bomb. Then again when Chris is holding his gun to Dino's head.
  • Orbital Shot: In the art museum.
  • Political Overcorrectness: Gloria tells Tony that her niece and nephew attend a school where they're not allowed to use the word "Christmas" for fear of offending non-Christians, and can only refer to it as "The Winter Festival".
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Jackie uses his gun to chase some Latino guys (or "spics" according to Jackie) out of the pizza parlor, asking them if they speak any English, and telling them to run for a Taco Bell instead.
  • Quaking with Fear: Played completely straight after Patsy pulls his gun on Gloria. Not just knees, either, she is visibly quaking with terror.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: Furio, true to character, is wearing blue underwear that some could take for women's panties. Tony can't help himself with a joke during Furio's emergency surgery: "Doc, see if you can remove this ladies underwear".
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: For most of the episode, Red Oni Jackie Jr. keeps pushing for the relatively apathetic Dino to call Carlo and set up the card game heist. But once they've pulled up outside the game, Jackie starts to have second thoughts and Dino declares "Let's do it before the crank wears off".
  • Refuge in Audacity: Ralph indicates that this was a factor in the robbery of Feech LaManna's card game actually benefiting Tony, Jackie Sr., and Silvio when normally there would have been reprisals for hitting a senior made man's game.
  • Reminder of Duty: An interesting example between Tony and Ralph, as they go back and forth on the ties each has to the Aprile family and why responsibility for Jackie Jr.'s fate lies with the other. But both men plainly want the guy dead at this juncture and expect that to be the outcome. Tony in particular is disgusted with Ralph's pathetic "mentoring" of Jackie and considers the duty to be Ralph's alone.
  • Robbing the Mob Bank: Jackie Aprile Jr. and his idiot stoner friends rob a mob poker game, trying to replicate the legendary stunt that marked out Jackie Sr. and Tony for greatness. Unfortunately, they mess it up, wound Furio (a made man), and kill a bystander, and Jackie's stepdad isn't around to shield them the way Tony's father and Jackie's uncle Richie did, and they are swiftly killed in retaliation.
  • Rule of Symbolism: The art museum is filled with naked statue pieces. The pieces very often have men and women locked into poses with each other that on one level look erotic, and yet would also be quite uncomfortable or even outright painful if living flesh human beings were to actually try to hold them. It Foreshadows the often paradoxical and painful sexual lives that various characters find themselves in.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Matush, in a Continuity Nod to Jackie's inversion of this trope at the benefit holdup.
  • Self-Harm: There is a strong implication that Gloria slashed her own tire in order to stir up some drama with Tony, as she is suddenly able to recognize something is wrong on the far side of her car during a dark night.
  • Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: Jackie makes Dino do the talking during the robbery for fear that at least Eugene will recognize his voice. That goes south when Sunshine unknowingly presses Jackie's Berserk Button by reminding him of his Disappeared Dad. Jackie curses at Sunshine, leading to Chris recognizing that it is Jackie Jr. underneath the ski mask.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Basic Instinct is playing on Jackie Jr.'s television, resulting in a case of Distracted by the Sexy for both himself and Dino. Could also be an allusion to the situation Tony finds himself in with respect to Gloria.
    • Patsy Parisi buying stuffed shells for the missus after death-threatening Gloria takes cues from Clemenza and the cannolis.
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy: A rather more immediate example. After observing enough of Gloria's antics, and insights provided by his therapy sessions with Dr. Melfi, Tony comes to the realization that nothing would terrify Gloria more than a boring death void of drama. That leads to assigning Patsy to make the Offer She Can't Refuse.
  • Spirited Young Lady: Tony's perception of Gloria and why he initially considers her a godsend compared to the infantile Irina.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Gloria clearly crosses the line into this trope when she drives Carmela home AND calls Carmela in her home.
  • Stealth Insult: Gloria tells Carmela she must "make a very nice home to be driving a Benz" and that "at least your daughter [Meadow] doesn't have to latch on to a man for success". Carmela fails to pick up on either.
  • Stout Strength: Tony's Would Hit a Girl scene features him pinning her by her neck against a wall and then, in a single motion, pivoting 270 degrees to his left and pushing her to the ground at no time letting go of her neck.
  • Suicide by Cop: What Gloria attempts by pushing Tony's buttons hard, as she craves a dramatic death. Dr. Melfi says the name of the trope out loud.
  • Suspiciously Apropos Music: Chris gives Jackie Jr. and Dino a competing offer to leave Ralphie's crew and join his instead. "Walk like an Egyptian" by The Bangles is playing in the background. The original writer wrote it while observing people walking uneasily and struggling to maintain their balance aboard a rocking ferry.
  • Taking a Third Option: Father Obosi offers Carmela one, respecting the sanctity of marriage while learning to "live on what the good part earns". Carmela resolves her Heel–Face Revolving Door and Heroic B So D by remaining tied to Tony but no longer wearing the expensive gifts and lavishments that his blood money brings.
  • That's an Order!: A Double Speak example from Tony to Ralph after the botched robbery. Tony uses words like, "I think you should go with your instincts", "I'll make sure they respect your decision", "Cause I'm sure you're gonna do the right thing", "That's why I made you captain", but the show writers may as well have put in translation subtitles saying, "Get rid of Jackie or else lose your captaincy and probably more besides".
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Christopher and Ally Boy Barese shoot Dino Zerilli in the head three times...and then Christopher walks up to his corpse and shoots him in the head two more times. This happens after the Pine Barrens incident, and Chris has valid reasons for making sure a dead body stays dead.
  • Title Drop: Dr. Melfi, giving the French name for Tony and Gloria's "crazy love".
  • Too Dumb to Live:
    • Jackie Jr. in particular, but really his whole little crew.
    "Let's do it before the crank wears off."
    • Sunshine as well, for mouthing off at several armed men despite repeated warnings to shut up.
  • Tranquil Fury: Tony goes into this mode once he hears about Gloria driving Carmela home and then calling her at home. He now realizes that Gloria is becoming the proverbial Stalker with a Crush. His facial expression also betrays a hint of Oh, Crap!.
  • Undying Loyalty: Melfi makes the case that despite Tony's serial indiscretions, he will never leave Carmela. He pushes back at first but eventually concedes her point.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Possibly.
    • Ralph is certainly correct about Tony, Jackie Sr. and Silvio robbing Feech's card game. But it's easy to be skeptical about his claim that he would have gone but didn't because he caught an STD from a prostitute. One has to wonder whether he backed out as a Dirty Coward but only regretted it afterwards when he saw how much it benefitted the trio. It could also be speculated that all three members of the trio despised Ralph even back then and didn't invite him.
    • Anybody listening to Gloria decry how she had a fantastic relationship with her niece and nephew, only to be cut off from them for no valid reason, would have to take what she says with more than a grain of salt. Especially Tony as more and more he's on the receiving end of a lot of her erratic and irrational behavior.
  • Unwanted Assistance: The owner of the pizza parlor asks the Latinos to take their smoking outside. They refuse, but the owner didn't find it a big enough deal to force the issue. Jackie and Dino take it upon themselves to force the Latinos out. One result is that Dino sends one of the Latinos crashing into the rare bottles by the window that the owner has spent 20 years collecting. It becomes obvious that the owner wished Jackie and Dino had exercised some judgment and restraint. Even Chris of all people gives the duo a Disapproving Look that shouts What the Hell, Hero?
  • Villains Out Shopping: Literally. Presumably to show that threatening to splatter someone's nipples all over the inside of a Mercedes is just another day in the life of a gangster, the episode ends with a completely banal scene of Patsy shopping for groceries. Also drives home his point that being killed by him would be less dramatic.
  • Wham Episode: Jackie Jr.'s heist of Eugene's poker game goes wrong, leading to something that's more of a Foregone Conclusion; Tony coerces Ralphie into killing Jackie Jr.
  • Woman Scorned: Tony relates that Irina slashed his tires out of jealousy one time, which Gloria uses to connect her to the slashed car of her Mercedes and stir up some drama.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Tony is finally pushed to his limit by Gloria, and nearly chokes her to death.
  • Yandere: Gloria, right up until she gets An Offer She Can't Refuse.
  • You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Chris tries to scare Jackie's crew away by invoking this. It doesn't work. After all, Jackie and the crew chose that game because they knew exactly who they were robbing.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: Jackie Jr. escapes the botched robbery by carjacking it out of there. But he's effectively a dead man walking for threatening several made men, firing shots at them, killing Sunshine their dealer, and severely wounding one of them, all without an official sit down that could sanction force against made guys.

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