Revelations mark this fourth episode of the series, involving a schoolyard fight brewing between Anthony Soprano Jr. (
Robert Iler) and a bully who unexpectedly backs down. Anthony Jr. fails to understand the boy's fear, so his sister Meadow (
Jamie-Lynn Sigler) explains that their father, Tony Soprano (
James Gandolfini), is not really a "waste management consultant" but a New Jersey mob kingpin. After he begins having erotic dreams about his psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (
Lorraine Bracco), Tony hires a crooked cop, Vin Makazian (
John Heard) to investigate Melfi's background, and the detective accidentally ruins her romance with a lawyer. Frantic after the mock execution he suffered, Soprano soldier Christopher Moltisanti (
Michael Imperioli) believes that his cousin and boss, Tony, ordered the incident because he gave Tony's daughter, Meadow, some crystal methamphetamines; however, after Christopher and his girlfriend, Adriana (
Drea de Matteo), discover the corpse of his murdered friend, Brendan Filone (
Anthony de Sando), he realizes that his uncle, Junior (
Dominic Chianese), ordered the slaying in retaliation for a botched truck hijacking. Exacerbated by Junior's bloodthirsty soldier, Mikey (
Al Sapienza), tensions rise between Tony and Junior when their boss and head of the family, Jackie Aprile (
Michael Rispoli), passes away from cancer. Tony is left to decide whether he will make a play for the top job in the family or concede control to his uncle. "Meadowlands" first aired on January 31, 1999. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide