Out on a golf course, Tony pops a Prozac while he waits to tee off. He hasn't gotten it down the hatch yet when Paulie startles him by yelling, "Dick's lookin' for ya!"
In a parking lot, Dick pulls up in a Benz convertible and tells Tony and Paulie that the Kolar brothers withdrew their bid for the routes. Tony and Paulie smile all "what a coincidence," and Dick says that Artie Bucco's looking for Tony.
Tony finds Artie beside a giant pile of plastic recyclables, wearing a Cosby shirt and pacing. Artie, still reeling from a vigorous henpecking, tries to give the tickets back to Tony, but Tony won't take them back, repeating that Artie's too stressed: "You gotta leave town." "I'm sorry," Artie says, handing Tony the tickets.
A sniffy restaurant. Melfi stands with a glass of wine while her date whines at the hostess to get them seated; the hostess tells him he'll have to wait and basically blows him off, but he turns around and tells Melfi, "I tore her a new one." Whatever, Little Big Man. Melfi smiles placatingly and suggests they go elsewhere so they can eat, and her date begins to object, but Melfi sees Tony come in with a blonde chippy on his arm, and she abruptly turns away from her date and buries her nose in her Valpolicella to keep Tony from spotting her. It doesn't work; he pauses when he sees Melfi, and the chippy says in a thick Russian accent, "Switty pie, I'm hongry," but Tony ignores her and gets Melfi's attention. Awkwardness. Tony tells her in code that the Prozac is really working. Melfi smiles tightly. Tony moves away, and Melfi's date is all "do you know who that was" about Tony, and he makes a bunch of snide comments, and Melfi tells him to shut the fuck up. Heh. Then the hostess comes up to them -- it's actually Adriana, Christopher's girlfriend, but we don't "meet" her yet -- and tells Little Big Man that they're setting up his table right now, clearly on the say-so of Tony. "Whoa," Little Big Man says, impressed. Stow it, Little Big Man.













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