The next morning, Tony wakes up when he hears bottles clinking outside his window. James Gandolfini makes the most exquisite hangover face ever. Tony peeks out the window and sees Bobby dumping all the empties. Carmela walks in with some water and aspirin for Tony. He asks about her shoulder, but she is in NO MOOD. Tony tries to joke her out of it, even suggesting that she shouldn't have let him drink so much. Carmela bitches that he is blaming her, and orders him to get ready to leave.
All cleaned up, the Sopranos walk out onto the patio, where Janice and Bobby have a big breakfast prepared. Carmela says she thinks it would be better if they left. Janice pretends she can't understand why they would. Bobby says that the whole thing is already forgotten, and reminds Tony that they have "that meeting with the Canucks." Tony softens, and Carmela accepts a drink from Bobby.
Tony sits on the dock alone, staring out at the water. You can tell he's working something through in his head, at least until he's distracted by the bell on Bobby's boat ringing as the waves knock it into the dock. For whom the bell tolls? As Tony mulls over his life, a duck flies away.
Inside the house, Bobby plays with the radio until he finds the news, where the war in Iraq is being discussed. Janice stares at Tony and bitches, "Fucking look at him out there. I've seen that sitting-in-the-chair thing." Talk about a loose interpretation -- as Bobby points out, "What? People sit in chairs."
Meanwhile, Tony continues to stew about something. Carmela walks up and reports that her potential buyers fell through, and that Meadow is staying in to study for her career as a pediatrician. So she's going with medical school instead of law school? Tony non sequiturs that the only reason Bobby beat him was because of a throw rug. Carmela is disgusted that Tony is still going on about this, and Tony claims that the first time he saw Carmela was while he was in a fight, and that he could tell she was "blown away." Carmela bleats that she was in high school at the time, and that watching two middle-aged relatives fight was hardly a turn-on. She adds that Tony had it coming, and that he gets it away with murder because he's the boss. I don't think she meant that literally, but if the whacking fits. Tony complains that he had to give up his friendship with Johnny Sack to get Bobby and Janice their house. Yeah, what a sacrifice. Carmela accuses both Tony and Janice of being "emotionally blocked." Tony doesn't think his body will ever recover from the shooting, and Carmela groans and walks away. Tony's phone rings, and it's Christopher, wishing him a belated happy birthday. Tony just hangs up on him! At first, I thought Tony was just annoyed about being reminded of his birthday, but now I'm wondering what's going on with Christopher. He wasn't at the house when Tony got out of jail, and now he forgot Tony's birthday? So maybe it was Christopher Tony was talking about in the boat earlier, the one who disappointed him.













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