Post by RedMaybe i'll get some heat for this post and maybe it's been discussed
to death. How did Tony figure it out about Pussy? I watched the
second season again and watched Tony find the wire and mic in his
cigarbox, but where did Pussy slip up because I can't figure out
where. I know they killed that kid who shot Christopher in one of the
last episodes but other than that I thought Pussy did a good job
keeping under cover. Any help?
Tony had mistrusted Pussy ever since he came back, allegedly from Brazil
where he was getting treatment for his back problem. Tony could never shake
the feeling Pussy was flipped. He let his guard down briefly when he let
Pussy assist him in killing Matt Bevilaqua. I suppose he figured that Pussy
would never tip off the feds about a murder he himself was a part of.
Remember the dinner a couple nights before, the night when they ate the food
that made Tony sick. They were at Vesuvio's with Furio. Pussy was going on
and on about the details of their latest phone card scam. Tony looked at
him with a very suspicious look - he was talking far too much. You just do
not do that, even amongst crew members. Their style is more subdued,
implied but not explicit. The less everyone knows the better and Pussy was
blabbing up a storm. Almost as if it was being recorded, Tony surely
thought.
So when Tony was sick with food poisoning he had the dream where Pussy
confessed to him while in the form of a fish. Tony just had to get to the
bottom of it once and for all. He could not understand why the Bevilaqua
thing was dropped so completely by the FBI. It haunted him - it was too
easy - it all had the mark of a spy. So he cooked up the boat story. While
he was searching Pussy's bedroom, he almost gave up but as a last thought
opened the cigar humidor. I think he saw it as being out of place on a
nightstand with all of his wife's makeup surrounding it.
Paul