Frank Ciornei

Paulie and Christopher are engulfed in a nightmarish journey into the South Jersey woods while trying to collect a debt from a Russian mobster. Meanwhile, Meadow is suspicious that Jackie Jr. is two-timing her, and Tony finds that family demands are jeopardizing his romance with Gloria.

A somnolent visit with the ghosts of Christmas past lands Tony back on Melfi's couch. With the annual pork-store holiday party approaching, Bacala reluctantly agrees to don the Santa suit that Pussy used to wear. Tony and Furio have a holiday surprise in store for the Russian who roughed up Janice.

Two young women are found murdered in their apartment. A party was in progress across the hall and the police question several possible suspects, but eventually realize their killer is still at large. One of the victims liked to party and was actually scoring heroin for a friend earlier that night, but those leads also turn up empty. The detectives then realize that whoever committed this heinous crime must have had access to the building because no one was "buzzed" in prior to the murders. One of the tenants says he saw a man in a workman's type uniform leaving the building, so the detectives question the super's assistants who have done work in some of the apartments giving them access to keys, but that doesn't pan out. They start to check out local locksmiths in the area, and they find one where all the employees wear the same type uniforms as the super's assistants.