Guy walks into a Psychiatrist's Office  (Episode 14)

Anthony Soprano, a capo in the DiMeo Crime Family, begins therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi after having anxiety attacks. His mother, Livia, refuses to move to a nursing home. Tony's Uncle Junior wants to use Tony's friend's restaurant as a location for a murder, but Tony prevents this by having the restaurant blown up. Christopher Moltisanti, Tony's nephew, murders the representative of a Czech mob that was trying to move in on the family waste management company.

Do Not Rescscitate  (Episode 15)

PUSSY IS A RAT. When Pussy goes to the doctor for steroid injections in his back, the person leafing through old magazines in the waiting room is FBI agent Skip Lipari. As they drive home afterwards it's revealed that Sal Bompensiero, AKA Big Pussy Bompensiero, made man and life-long friend of Tony Soprano, is facing a heroin possession charge and has become an informant for the Feds.

Toodle-Fucking-Do  (Episode 16)

Richie Aprile is back in town. Big brother of the late, great Jackie Aprile, Richie has just finished ten years in prison and is looking to pick up where he left off. He figures it should be pretty easy, too. After all, the jerky kid he used to look out for in the old neighborhood has grown up to be none other than the current Boss, Tony Soprano.

Commendatori  (Episode 17)

This week Tony goes to the old country to conduct new business while Carmela stays home and contemplates the nature of marriage. As part of the spoils of being Boss, Tony now controls the family's luxury car "export" business. This new responsibility takes Tony, Paulie and Christopher to Naples to meet with Zi Vittorio, head of the Neapolitan famiglia. An old associate of Junior's whom he last saw in 1961, Vittorio is, warns Junior, "a serious man" his nephew had better be ready for. But, he adds, at least "Vittorio don't listen to opera, which is a fuckin' break.

The Happy Wanderer  (Episode 19)

Now that he's back with Dr. Melfi, Tony tells her that he's angry with all the "happy wanderers" in the world: the people who manage to get through life "with a clear head." At the moment, however, he doesn't have time to explore this anger. He's got to organize the "Executive Game." Started by Junior and Johnny Boy Soprano more than thirty years ago, the Executive Game is the Cadillac of poker games: the richest and most exclusive in Jersey. When Tony was a young cugine, Junior would chase him away just for peeking through the doorway at the game. But now that he's Boss, well, control of the Executive Game is just one more perk Tony can claim for himself.

Big Girls Don't Cry  (Episode 18)

Watch out, New Jersey, Furio Giunta has arrived. The latest addition to the Soprano crew is safely in the States and, as a favor to Tony by Artie Bucco, gainfully employed as a mozzarella maker at the Nuovo Vesuvio Restaurant. But make no mistake: Furio's real boss is Tony. And now that his operation has some new talent, the Boss can make a few organizational changes. Paulie and Silvio are bumped up, reporting directly to Tony. Reporting to Paulie and Silvio are Furio, Christopher... and Pussy.

D-Girl  (Episode 20)

"Life is essentially meaningless." Tony talking to Dr. Melfi? Livia to anyone who'll listen? No, this time it's Anthony, Jr. to his parents, upon being caught driving -- and crashing -- his mother's car. An unrepentant A.J. has been reading Camus and Nietzsche and come to the conclusion that God is dead, existence is pointless and his upcoming confirmation in the Catholic Church is an exercise in absurdity. And while Tony can put the fear of God into an unruly cugine as easily as putting on his socks, A.J.'s affront to his and the Almighty's authority has the capo di tutti capi poleaxed.

Full Leather Jacket  (Episode 21)

In Tony Soprano's world, there's no such thing as doing a simple favor for someone. To the contrary: it's never simple and isn't always a favor. Case in point: Carmela is concerned that despite having good grades and high test scores, Meadow still might not get into a good college. "It's all who you know," she tells Tony. And while rubbing elbows with Frank Sinatra, Jr. at a poker game might wow'em at the pork store, it doesn't impress the Admissions Committee at Georgetown. So Carmela asks Joan O'Connell, twin sister of her neighbor Jean Cusamano and a highly successful alum of Georgetown Law School, to write a letter of recommendation for Meadow. At first Joan demurs, telling Carmela she can't write a letter for a girl she doesn't know.

From Where to Eternity  (Episode 22)

There are spirits in Essex County this week -- and they're anything but blithe. To everyone's relief, Christopher has survived the attempt on his life -- but not before going into arrest and being clinically dead for a full minute. When he awakes, he calls Tony and Paulie to his side and informs them that during his minute ad patres he went to Hell: an Irish bar that exists in a perpetual Saint Patrick's Day, and where his father gets whacked every day. If that weren't bad enough, Brendan Filone and Mikey Palmice are best friends there and they gave him a message for Tony and Paulie: "Three o'clock."

Bust-Out  (Episode 23)

A law-abiding civilian -- or "flag-salutin' motherfucker" in Paulie's parlance -- was in Hacklebarney State Park the night Matt Bevilaqua was whacked. He heard the gunshots and saw Tony and "a husky accomplice" driving away from the scene. And then he called the police. So what does this mean for Tony?