Tony Soprano glorified "old days" of the Mafia. Tony leaves out the violence associated with his criminal career. Tony tells Dr. Melfi a story about ducks landing in his pool. He describes his mother Livia, a cold, mean-spirited woman with whom he has an openly hostile relationship. By the end of the first session Tony has admitted that he feels depressed, but storms out when Dr. Melfi presses him further about the relationship between his symptoms and the ducks. When the family visits Green Grove, a Nursing Home where Tony is trying to place his mother, Livia's derisive outburst prompts a second
Whitecaps (The Sopranos) When Tony returns home, Carmela is hurling his possessions from an upstairs window. She tells Tony that he has embarrassed her for years with his infidelity and demands that he leave the house. After trading recriminations with his wife, Tony goes to Irina's home. He finds Svetlana, who explains that soon after Tony thrashed Zellman in front of Irina, humiliating him, the relationship ended. Tony spends the night at Whitecaps. Back at the Soprano household, Meadow argues with her mother about the separation, asking her how she could "take shit" from Tony for so many years. Tony returns home and