The Sopranos season 4, episode 6
Original air date: October 20, 2002

Christopher and Adriana are bombed and sitting on their couch when Tony calls and tells Christopher to meet him. Christopher tries to pull himself together, and when he meets Tony, Tony tells him that he's going to begin a transition over the next several years so that his orders will be handed down more and more through Christopher, and eventually through Christopher alone. Christopher asks about Silvio, and Tony stresses the importance of relying on family only. He warns Christopher not to give Silvio any attitude, though. Christopher promises that he would follow Tony into hell and says he only hopes he's worthy.

AJ's hanging out with some friends, which includes snuggling up with his new girlfriend, Devin. They start talking about AJ's dad being in the mob, which he doesn't deny. Someone mentions that AJ's dad owns a strip club, and they decide to take a field trip. AJ can't remember where it is exactly, though, and ends up taking them to Satriale's, which he says is his dad's "office."

Back home, Carmela starts carrying on about how lonely Furio always seems. She wants to set him up with a friend of hers from her dentist's office. Tony tells her not to worry about it, but when Adriana and Christopher pull out of the Billy Joel concert they were supposed to attend with Carmela, Tony, Carmela's cousin Brian and his wife, Carmela invites Furio and the dental hygienist, who seem to hit it off really well.

Meanwhile, Artie Bucco's new French hostess' brother, Jean-Pierre, comes to Artie with a business proposition. He needs to borrow $50,000 for two weeks to finance a venture that will import French digestifs. In two weeks, the advertising money will be released, so he can pay it back. Artie says he can arrange it, but with a mark-up of $7500. Artie goes first to Ralphie, who offers him 2% interest but eventually passes. Tony finds out that Artie went to Ralphie first, and he's hurt. He tells Artie he'd be happy to loan him the money, at 1.5% interest.

When Carmela was gossiping about Furio's love life, she also mentioned some other juicy gossip that she'd heard at the dentist's office: the saleslady who sold them their Mercedes a year ago, Gloria Trillo, hung herself from a chandelier. Tony can't even breathe for a minute, remembering how unbalanced Gloria was when he last saw her. He confronts Dr. Melfi for not having helped Gloria more (remember, she was Melfi's patient as well). Dr. Melfi tells Tony that there are some people you just can't help, but he feels responsible for Gloria's death - he knew she was messed up and he broke up with her when she was most fragile.

Tony's about to get a second chance, though: Artie panics when Jean-Pierre doesn't pay back the money. He knows he's going to owe Tony $51,500 in a matter of days, so he goes to Jean-Pierre's to rough him up and demand the money. Jean-Pierre has a very nonchalant attitude about the whole thing, though, and tells Artie that the money's just gone and the venture's fallen apart. Artie attackes Jean-Pierre, but Jean-Pierre gets the better of him and rips Artie's earring out of his ear. Artie goes home and tries to commit suicide by taking a bunch of pills and washing them down with the fancy French liquor. He calls Tony to ask him to look after Charmaine and his children, and Tony calls 911 to save Artie. He's successful in saving Artie, and even tells Artie he'll assume the debt and collect it himself, but Artie's not grateful for long. He accuses Tony of having seen how the whole thing would play out from the beginning.

Tony visits Melfi to discuss Artie's situation. She asks if Artie's right that Tony saw the whole thing before it happened, and he says he isn't sure. She pushes him to define what it is about Artie's situation that's different from his "work," where he deals with bad debts all the time.

Meanwhile, AJ's learned that Devin is unbelieveably rich: gated mansion, Picassos on the walls, private cars to and from the city whenever she wants, and so forth. He's embarrassed that she's seen his house, which he was pretty proud of until he saw hers. She reassures him that she's not interested in him for how much money his dad makes, just interested in him period. AJ can't figure out, though, why Devin's dad, who's just a financial wiz, can afford an ultra-luxurious lifestyle, while the Sopranos just have a suburban lifestyle, albeit a pretty upscale one. Or, as one of his friends puts it, "Hey AJ, how come your dad doesn't have that Don Corleone money?" AJ doesn't know, but Artie Bucco could tell him.