AJ is diagnosed with ADD, which makes Tony begin to question if he’s doomed his son, through his nature and through nurture.
Memories of his father and mother and his life as a boy come back through flashback sequences.The sequences, which reminded me of the early scenes in Goodfellas or A Bronx Story, were a nice change a pace from all episodes so far.
The question of if he was predestined to end up a gangster or if he had had a choice comes up. Grandma learns that Tony has been seeing a psychiatrist and trouble really starts brewing. It all comes down to his mother again. The human side of Tony really comes out at the end of the episode. Here he simply is the family man; playing Nintendo with his son or making an ice cream Sunday by spraying half a can of whipped cream in his mouth.
The mob stuff doesn’t take center stage in this episode; instead it really focuses on fatherhood. The whole episode helps to see where he came from and what makes him tick. It also poses an interesting question for Tony; why did he become a gangster? Did he ever really have a choice or was his fate sealed the moment his father didn’t get out?
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