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Tony takes Carmela on a surprise trip to "Whitecaps," a house on the Jersey Shore he is thinking of buying. At first hesitant, Carmela is eventually delighted; she and Tony walk on the beach and kiss. Tony meets the house's owner, Alan Sapinsly, an attorney, and offers cash in the shortest possible time allowed by law.
Bizarre video clip sees Tony and Carmela Soprano under witness protection in New York
The next day, when her father suggests that she look for other men, Carmela replies that, as Tony's wife, her motives will always be distrusted. Tony B tries to adjust to civilian life. His Korean-American employer, who was pressured by Tony into giving Tony B a job, is hostile due to Tony B's mob connections.
Carmela is a homemaker for the Soprano household, and works to create a semblance of legitimacy for her family, even though she is well aware their wealth is built on "blood money". Tony trusts Carmela enough to confide in her, to a degree, about some of his Mafia dealings, notably the failed attempt on his life and the death of Richie Aprile.
Tony watches as A.J. types on a chatroom and giggles; disgusted, he tells Dr. Melfi that he hates his son. She points out that Tony wishes his mother had protected him as Carmela protects A.J. Tony finds A.J. a construction job and gently encourages him to "do good". But when A.J. resists him, Tony smashes the windshield of A.J.'s car, warning ...
There is a conference between the school principal and the football coach, and Tony and Carmela with A.J. The Sopranos are surprised, and Carmela is angry, that A.J.'s punishment is going to be suspended because of his improved academic performance, and because it is in "his best interest – and the team's" for him to continue playing football.
When Tony shows Carmela the new media center he has installed in the pool house, she replies that she will pick up the movie, In the Bedroom, for them to watch. When lying in bed Carmela is reading The Mists of Avalon, a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Ralph refers to Valentina as "my Chiquita Banana" and "the Mambo Queen."
When Carmela and Tony express concern about AJ's existentialist pronouncements, Meadow quotes Madame de Staël: "One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.” Meadow says that A.J. has been assigned The Stranger, a novel by Albert Camus.