This was one of those quieter “set-up” episodes, I guess. It still had some good moments. I actually felt sorry for Johnny Sack when the cops dragged him away from the wedding. They could have at least waited until his daughter had driven away. It seemed like they were intentionally being dicks about it. It was kind of interesting to see how everybody immediately saw Johnny’s reaction as “weakness.” Callous bastards. Tony was right when he said, “they’re my friends but they’re jackals.”
So I guess the cat’s out of the bag about Vito. It would be hard to get more busted than he did. I can’t imagine those guys will keep it a secret so I suppose Vito is either going to kill himself or skip town…or maybe kill those guys before they can trell anyone.
I kind of felt sorry for the guy who got his ass kicked by Tony. It reminded me of that prison movie cliche about picking out the toughest guy in the room to earn respect. I only wish it had been Paulie.
I thought the same thing, but I kind of doubt it. But he did basically sucker punch the kid.
The Marshall were being dicks but at least Johnny Sacks deserves it, I just feel sorry for the daughter. I saw in the credits she is a Van Zandt, anyone know who she is and how she is related to Steven Van Zandt?
Best exchange tonight:
“Allegra, I thought that was cold medicine”
“It means Joyousin Italian”
“What does that have to do with a cold medicine?”
Vito: I thought he was going to kiss the pistol tonight. Should happen soon.
Phil has to be careful, he is Johnny’s man, I don’t think he could take over the family and Little Carmine won’t trust him no matter what.
That was the ultimate in Italian weddings, $425,000. Wow
I got the impression that Vito offed himself but they definitely left it open. I also had the feeling that Tony paid off the body guard to take a fall but if so they would have revealed it during the episode.
I thought that it was a great episode. Vito in leather…hilarious.
I think if it had been staged they would have done a better job coming up with some sort of provocation. They bodyguard would have pretended to lip off or something. As it was, Tony just contrived something totally lame out of thin air. It smacked of lack of planning. Plus, Tony was shown considering some of the other guys, looking at their biceps, asking Bobby how much he weighed, etc. I think it was supposed to be clear that he was trying to decide which one to take down.
As for Tony paying off the body guard, I think he’d be worried about Penne Arabiata telling someone else about that. He was just following Melfi’s advice. Whatever you feel like on the inside, put it aside and be tough on the outside, at least to get you through the near future.
If Vito isn’t dead, he’s certainly running for it. If he’s running for it, there may be a decent chance that the feds pick him up. It was interesting that when Tony was kinda nudging Meadow to tie the knot, both Meadow and Finn looked uncomfortable… like neither of them expected it was going to end that way. Probably be interesting to see what happens to Finn if they break up.
Anyway, the NY scene looks to get a bit more interesting.
I’ll be scrubbing the image of Vito in leather from my brain now . . . funny, yes, but also weirdly disturbing. I never thought of him as a leather boy, but ya just never know, do ya?
We’re seeing the gradual breakdown of the “family” here – Phil saying Johnny is weak and positioning himself in NY, Johnny wanting to take Franki Valli out (sorry, his character’s name escapes me at the moment), Christopher backtalking Tony. The world as Tony knows it has altered while he was out of commission.
And what was with Melfi spewing cliches all over the place? That is not her normal style – she’s usually more confrontational. Has she given up trying to help him in a significant way?
Overall, a good episode that sets up several different dilemmas.
For a real life comparison: It’s common practice now to remove your shoes prior to going through the metal detector at the airport. Potentially saves you from being wanded (and the associated delay).
I thought two things were bit implausible. I don’t think the Feds would have behaved like such in-your-face a-holes, even if they hate Johnny. Wait 30 seconds, and you have Johnny without a scene, which seems to me is how they’d prefer to do things. Create a scene, and who knows if somebody’s going to do something stupid. There was abolsutely no reason for their actions, other than to create some drama.
I also coudln’t see Johnny crying like that. My wife disagrees with me on that one. But given that, and Phil’s comments–to people outside Johnny’s “family” no less–it doesn’t bode well for Johnnny, it seems to me.
Vito brought the gun to the motel to kill himself if word had gotten back to Silvio from the goons at the club about seeing Vito there. That’s why he kept asking Sil “is everything else OK?” after they had their little meaningless convo about Tony.
Since it was obvious that Sil didn’t know about the club, Vito might not do it. But
in the previews for next week, there’s some dialogue from Tony & somebody else I didn’t catch about “has anyone heard from Vito? I called him but he didn’t get back to me” or something like that. Setting up the possibility that he ate some lead, I guess.
Now why does he think Sil would have already heard about it. I was under the impression that this is about an hour later. If it had been a day or two…
Besides, I’ve learned to NEVER get anything from the previews, they’re extremly misleading on this show. The classic example (for me) is the previews that showed Paulie (I think) shooting Chris. When we saw the next episode it turned out to be Paulie pointing a gun at chris [edit out paulie putting away his gun, chris getting up, taking out his gun, pointing it and Tony’s Suburban] and Chris shooting Tony’s truck.