AJ and Tony aren’t cohabitating very peacefully; his son “doesn’t like it there” and after a fight over breakfast cereal AJ even says he’s going to kick Tony’s ass, something T actually seems pretty thrilled about. However, after AJ’s allegations of violence and abuse, Carmela allows her son to move back in with her but there are a number of ground rules that will be followed, including a focus on improving his school work. After the family meeting Tony claims they “played that right” even though he knows the decision was all Carmela’s.

Because of an incident involving plagerism and the fact that AJ doesn’t have a good enough GPA for college, Carm has to meet several times with his advisor, Robert Wegler. There’s an attraction between them and he asks her out to dinner. She tells Father Phil that she has met somebody, someone who reminds her of him and he immediately passes a hostile judgement and spouts retoric about the sanctity of marriage.

Carmela and Wegler close down the restaurant on their date and he presents her with a first edition copy of “Madame Bovary.” After a steamy kiss in the car they go back to his place. We get a tush shot of Carm leaving his bed. When she quietly slips back home she glances at a photo of Tony and AJ and then goes downstairs for the handgun and places it under the pillow on the bed. Is she afraid of what Tony would do if he found out? Carm’s still on cloud nine as she tells Rosalie about her date, but the next time she’s with him the guilt catches up to her and she leaves quickly. AJ’s education is still an issue also and Wegler speaks to one ot the teachers on his behalf. They have sex again and then things turn ugly. He says they should take a time-out and accuses her of “using her pussy as a weapon,” pretty raw language for such an intellectual. Was she manipulating him by asking for a college recommendation post-coitus? Carmela storms out with the warning, “You better watch your step,” and perhaps she finally realizes that because of Tony her motives will always be questionable.