This incident prompts Tony to discuss incidents from his own childhood with Dr. Melfi: His mother once threatened to stick a fork in his eye if he did not stop bothering her. He saw his father beat someone up – "You could tell he knew what he was doing." Later, the same man offered Johnny Boy a chance to move to Reno, an escape from his gangster life; his mother said she would rather smother her children than take them to Nevada. He saw his father being arrested and felt proud to be his son. This occurred at the time of the 1967 Newark riots.