- While Silvio has the flu, Chris and Paulie run his collections for him, which results in the pair getting lost in the woods and nearly freezing to death while Tony's affair with Gloria goes sour as does Meadow's relationship with Jackie Jr.
- Christopher and Paulie are out making collections but things get out of hand and they soon have a body to dispose of. They decide to dispose of it in Pine Barrens in South Jersey. They get to the woods only to find that their victim is still alive. He manages to run off on them and in the pursuit, Christopher and Paulie get themselves lost. As darkness falls, the cold takes over, and it's particularly hard on Paulie who has lost one of his shoes. They take refuge in an abandoned truck but have no choice but to call Tony and ask him to rescue them. Tony is still seeing Gloria Trillo, usually at lunch time. He decides to come clean and tell Dr. Melfi that he's seeing another of her patients. Gloria is something of a Jekyll and Hyde however with wide mood swings. Melfi asks Tony if Gloria's behavior reminds him of anyone. When Jackie Jr. fails to call her, Meadow is certain he is cheating on her. She sets out to find out what he's up to.—garykmcd
- Paulie and Chris goes to collect a debt for Silvio, but everything goes terribly wrong and Paulie and Chris ends up lost in the woods of Pine Barrens. At the same time, Tony is having problems keeping both his family and his girlfriend satisfied.—Morty_man91
- Silvio is sick and can't do his rounds, so he asks Chris and Paulie to make his collections. While collecting from a Russian named Valery, they get into an argument that ends in Paulie strangling the man to death. Now with a body to take care of, Chris suggests they go to the Pine Barrens and dump it in the woods. Once they arrive, however, they discover Valery is still alive. After a chase through the woods, the pair realize they're lost in the snow in the middle of the night with no shelter and no way to call for help. Meadow, meanwhile, continues to see Jackie, but becomes distraught when he keeps leaving their dates early. Growing suspicious, she follows him and catches him with another woman. In a similar situation, Tony finds himself facing Gloria's anger when Irina calls him in the middle of one of their dates. After mentioning to Dr. Melfi that Gloria is easily angered and impossible to please, the doctor draws a connection with another woman in Tony's life, but he fails to see it.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
- Laid low by a virus, Silvio can't make a collection from a Russian named Valery. So Tony tells Paulie to do it. Although he'd promised his mother he'd accompany her to the Social Security Office, Paulie grabs Christopher and heads for the Russian's. All they have to do is knock on the door, get the money and go. But when they get there, they find that in addition to the money, Valery's carrying a big load of attitude - which Paulie only exacerbates by cracking wise about rubles and Russian toilet practices. When Valery responds with an unprintable epithet, a nasty, sloppy brawl erupts; it eventually culminates into Paulie throttling the Russian with a floor lamp. Christopher is understandably alarmed that Paulie's turned a routine collection into a hit. But Paulie, unruffled, says they'll simply bury the expired expatriate in the South Jersey Pine Barrens. "Twenty minutes from A.C.," he tells Christopher, "We'll get a room...play a little blackjack...the day won't be a total loss." But when they get to the woods and open the trunk they find something they weren't counting on: Valery's still alive. Not to worry, Paulie again assures Christopher; since the Russian is still respiring, he can dig his own grave. But unbeknownst to Paulie and Christopher, Valery is a former Russian army commando. With practiced efficiency, Valery uses the shovel to hit Christopher on the head, then Paulie in the groin; then he runs into the woods. A stunned Paulie and profusely bleeding Christopher go after him, guns blazing. But despite being hit - in the head, no less - by one of Paulie's shots, Valery manages to get away. And it turns out Valery's not the only thing Paulie and Christopher have lost: they can't find their way back to the car. At least they have a cell phone. But when they call Tony, he, to put it mildly, is not amused. Valery works for Slava - the Russian who launders Tony's money - and so, Tony warns Paulie, "This guy cannot come back to tell this story." Tony then hangs up, leaving Paulie and Christopher to solve the problem on their own. Tony, unfortunately, has his own problem to handle. Gloria Trillo, the woman Tony told Melfi makes him feel better than "your Prozac and therapy bullshit combined," is turning out to be less perfect than he'd thought. er moods turn on a dime and when she's feeling neglected she throws things, notably the London broil that smacks Tony square on the head. It started so easy and uncomplicated - what's with unstable women and meat, anyway? And Tony's relationship isn't the only one going south; Meadow's is, too. One night, when Jackie tells her he's having his mother's car inspected, she catches him with a woman who is definitely not a mechanic. Back at her dorm, Meadow's girlfriends counsel her to forget him. "He's a drip," they tell her. And although she defends him, saying, "You don't know what it's like to grow up where we did," Meadow can't help thinking that maybe her friends are right. Meanwhile, back in the Pine Barrens, the Outward Bound experience is not going well for Paulie and Christopher. They still haven't found Valery - dead or alive - or the car. They spend the night in an abandoned van, dining on ketchup packets and blaming each other for their predicament. Fortunately the next morning Tony and Bobby Baccala locate their half-frozen comrades and head back to civilization. On the way, Tony lets Paulie know the consequences of his sloppiness: "Let's be clear on this right now...he's your problem, not mine...you take the heat...you pay the price." Paulie considers, then replies, "Fine."
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