Johnny Sack is on the road to perdition when he demands a hit on the disrespectful Ralphie. Failing to get permission, he decides to take care of business himself. This is not good for anyone, least of all Tony, since Ralphie is Tony's top earner. So Tony puts out a hit on Sack, and this will lead to Uncle Junior recommending the hit be done by the old Rhode Island mob as Johnny Sack makes regular runs to the nation's smallest state to visit an ailing relative. While this episode is pretty damned serious, the joke will come when Chris and Silvio go to visit what's left of the old R.I. mob, and they turn out to be a bunch of couch-ridden, toothless, shriveled-up old men. That scene, which I am thinking is in the next episode, is priceless. The actor playing Sack gets to chew up the scenery something fierce. I was working at the Bridgeport paper in the 1970s when the NY and RI mobs were at war. They sometimes went at it in Connecticut with the aid of the biker gangs of the time. One guy was gunned down right near Bridgeport police headquarters, in broad daylight yet. So you may imagine my merriment and delight when we get a look at what's left of the old RI mob. The three old timers look like the three witches in MACBETH, trading off an eyeball, as I recall.
Review of The Weight
