Tony continues to stress over his relationship with his uncle, among other things. Seeing Jackie Aprile's worsening health doesn't help, nor does Christopher's desire to stir things up and settle things once and for all with Uncle Junior and Mikey Palmice.
Tony has another panic attack and a bad dream (which opens the episode) before he finally gets some advice from Dr. Melfi that he follows. Before that he is getting kind of sick of her. He wants to know something about her, not something in particular but something about who she is. He hires a police detective who owes him to look into her. The detective goes a little further than observing. He pulls over Dr. Melfi and a guy whom she recently started dating. When the guy objects the detective beats him up and then arrests him. Dr. Melfi winds up sharing the story with Tony but he doesn't own up to the fact that he was the one who put the police detective on her case.
Things look like they are getting ready to go nuclear between Tony and Uncle Junior. Tony takes a page out of a book that Dr. Mefi gave him and suggests that Junior should be the new boss. By stepping aside and letting his uncle take over he avoids a war. Instead of wondering where Uncle Junior stands now he knows exactly where he stands. He also gets his uncle to cough up some money for supporting him.
AJ gets into a fight at school with Jeremy Piocosta, a classmate who used to be a friend. AJ doesn't tell his father but Jeremy's father hears about it. Tony runs into George Piocosta at a gardening store. Tony is holding an ax in his hand at the time and inadvertently scares George. The next day AJ is supposed to fight Jeremy again but Jeremy backs off. He gives AJ money to cover the cost of the shirt he tore up when they fought the day before. AJ is confused. He tells Meadow about it and she clues him in to their father's real line of business.
Another excellent episode. I couldn't have told you what happened in this episode before watching it this time around but a lot of it felt very familiar as I watched it unfold.
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