It was written by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, and directed by Jack Bender, and originally aired on April 29, 2001.
The episode follows Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he feels stress and misery during preparations for Christmas with his family.
However, Pussy did not go to the sitdown, and Tony thinks that was when the FBI flipped him; he believes they had him wear a wire when he dressed up as Santa.
When Tony is visiting Janice she starts complaining about a pain in her wrist, which might need an operation, caused by the Russian thug who came to take back Svetlana's prosthetic leg.
Tony obtains his name and place of work, and he and Furio beat him up and throw him through the glass window of a store's Christmas display.