We meet Tony Soprano joyfully playing with a family of ducks, quite a robust, balding, middle aged man in his trademark bathrobe and boxers, submerged in his own backyard pool, feeding them like somone briefly convinced he has achieved domestic harmony.

His own family observes, perplexed. Then the ducks leave. And Tony has a panic attack. Later, in therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi he admits he’s terrified of losing his family. The ducks were never just ducks.

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