The Sopranos season 4, episode 3
Original air date: September 29, 2002

The episode focuses on Native American protests of Columbus Day celebrations in Newark - they're demonstrating against Columbus for having colonized the Americas and taken land from the native peoples. Italian-American groups in the area are outraged, calling it an attack on their heritage. The theme hits home with Silvio, who can't get over it. He sends Ralph to see Dr. Redclay, the leading Native American spokesman; Ralph threatens to expose a leading Native American actor for having no Native American heritage. The activist chalks that up as being about as threatening as "finding out James Caan's not Italian."

Meanwhile, the ladies of the parish are discussing Italian-American heritage as well, after a sociologist from the local college gives a talk at their luncheon. Karen Baccalieri's on the way home from the lunch when she calls home and asks her son, Bobby, Jr., to call his dad and have him pick up some steak and eggplant on the way home. Bobby's ticked, because he's already stuck in traffic - he doesn't know that the reason he's tied up in traffic is that his wife's just been killed in an accident, the accident that has snarled up traffic. He's devastated when he finds out - sweet, old Bobby was devoted to his wife, so everyone pitches in to look after him and his family.

Janice is rather jealous when she sees Bobby's devotion. She's comparing him to Ralph, who treats her like a "hoo-ah." Their relationship is heating up, and Ralph breaks everything off with Rosalie Aprile to further what he's got with Janice. Janice has realized that Ralph's not really the man of her dreams, though, and this isn't exactly what she had in mind. (Her therapist surmises that she's attracted to men from her brother's crew because she's seeking her brother's approval as a stand-in for the approval she didn't feel she got from her father.) When Ralph tries to move in with her, she flips out and pushes him down the stairs. It seems for a minute that maybe Janice has killed another one of her boyfriends, but Ralph starts complaining loudly about his back and threatening to kill her.

Turns out, Ralph's got bigger problems than Janice, though, when Johnny Sack hears about his joke about Johnny's wife through Paulie. Johnny doesn't take well to people making fun of his wife's weight and warns Tony at Karen Baccalieri's funeral to keep Ralph away from him. Tony asks Ralph what he's done to piss Johnny off, but Ralph swears he doesn't know.

Tony's got other problems with Johnny, too: Johnny's discovered that Tony's made quite a bit of money by turning around and selling Uncle Junior's old garage to some developers in the Esplanade area. Johnny reminds Tony that their families had an agreement to split the Esplanade project, and that Carmine (Johnny's nominal boss, the way Uncle Junior's the nominal boss of the Sopranos), feels they should split the profits on the sale of the garage. Tony plays nice, but he's not happy about someone in his family spilling the beans about the garage.