Paulie shows up at Tony's house to tell him he's learned the Feds are looking into a murder case from the early 1980s. In fact it was...
Plot
Tony and Paulie Gualtieri travel to Miami Beach together. Tony needs to get Paulie out of New Jersey while a situation involving an old murder Paulie committed is reinvestigated. Getting Paulie out of range of potential witnesses buys time. They stay in a beach hotel and move through the tourist world of South Florida.
The trip is miserable for Tony. Paulie over an extended period is a specific kind of ordeal: he talks too much about himself, complains that the family has never properly recognized his contributions, and relitigates old grievances with a specificity that drives Tony to the edge of his patience. Tony begins to think seriously about having Paulie killed while they are in Florida. The isolation and the opportunity are both present. He does not act on this.
Junior Soprano is in a psychiatric facility following the shooting. In his ward, Junior has adapted to the institutional life in ways that suggest his dementia has given him a particular kind of peace: he does not fully understand that he is in a psychiatric facility and often behaves as if he is somewhere else entirely. His interactions with other patients and staff are handled with dark comedy that does not minimize what has happened to him.
Credits
Written by: Terence Winter
Directed by: Phil Abraham