Tony and his business associates are forced to scramble when they find out that they are about to get indicted. Tony and Carmella clean out all their hidden loot from the house and stash it in Livia's apartment, without telling her.
Christopher is freaking out. The episode opens with him having a weird, horrific dream about someone he killed a few episodes back. It bothers him for a good portion of this episode. He want to write a movie script and tries using the dream as inspiration but he can't seem to get his ideas out of his head and into the script. He seems to conflate reality and fiction. He sees what is happening as a movie but he gets agitated because he can't see his part in it. He worries about what his arc is. He tries telling Paulie about what's bothering but Paulie doesn't understand.
Christopher gets so worked up that he loses his cool and shoots the guy working the counter at a bakery. The moment was all about Christopher but I couldn't help but notice that one of the other customers in the bakery was played by the actor who also plays Vito Spatafore in future episodes of the show. At first I thought that maybe this was supposed to be Vito but from what I can find online it is not. It is just a case of one actor playing a different character in his first appearance on the show.
Tony gets angry when Dr. Melfi doesn't cut him any slack after he misses one of their sessions. He warned her that it might happen. He didn't cancel the session in advance so she charges him for it. He loses his cool when she insists that he pay for the missed session. She is going through her own little crisis in this episode as her ex-husband tries to talk her out of keeping Tony as a patient. Her ex doesn't know exactly who her patient is, just that he is connected.
Tony gives Christopher a hard time about the shooting at the bakery when he finds out about it. He tries slapping some sense into Christopher but that doesn't seem to work. It isn't until the end of the episode when Christopher sees his name in a newspaper article about the indictments of member of the Soprano crime family that he comes out of his funk.
Uncle Junior finds out that Tony is seeing a psychiatrist, from Livia. I believe she found out from AJ, who accidentally spilled the beans when he was visiting her in 1.07 (Down Neck).
Overall a very good episode. It didn't blow me with the level of quality but I was totally engrossed in what was going on. I didn't think once about pausing the show or taking a break like I do with some hour-long shows.
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