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Yeah, it's funny how Tony seems to think the Christopher was the cause of all his bad luck. At the same time, with last weeks episode I was predicting that Christopher was going to get flipped by the Fed's and bring down Tony, so to nip that plot potential in the bud like that the very next episode was something I wasn't expecting.
I think you are right, Woppy, that with Tony's new-found sense of good fortune and arrogance he WILL take on the NY family and it will have him either coming out on top with a potential for movies down the road, or on the bottom with an end to the characters and story altogether.
TJR