next day, without his assistant. That evening, Victor meets Davey, who confesses that he is ruined, in debt to Tony Soprano. The next day, only Victor's assistant comes to Carmela's house. After some cruel words to A.J., Tony feels bad and tries to get closer to him. At first A.J. resists, but they are happy together when they go out on Tony's boat. Title reference A "bust out" is a fraud tactic, commonly used in the organized crime world, wherein a business' assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of insolvency. Richie and Tony profit from busting out Davey Scatino's sporting goods store in this episode. "Bust out" is also a poker term that Poker News defines as: "To lose all your chips and thus be eliminated from a tournament." Cultural references In bed, Carmela is reading Memoirs of a Geisha. Livia mentions Rose Kennedy, the wealthy matriarch of the Kennedy family. When Richie visits Junior at his home, Junior is watching the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Carmela tells Tony about a Harvard study examining the importance of the father-son relationship she read about in Time. Tony mentions "The Scorpion and the Frog" to David Scatino. At home, the eyewitness is reading Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick. Richie tells Janice that Mafia rules dictate that an underling cannot kill a boss. She responds, "Tell that to Paul Castellano", referring to the assassination of Castellano by John Gotti. A.J. is shown playing the Dreamcast game Flag to Flag. Music The piano instrumental playing at Nuovo Vesuvio during lunch with Carmela and Christine Scatino is "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". The song "Con te partirò" by Andrea Bocelli appears for the third time this season, played as Carmela thinks about and receives a phone call from the handyman. This song was especially prominent in "Commendatori", playing (among other places) when Carmela and her friends discussed hoping to be free of their husbands. The music playing during the scene wherein the witness realizes the murder victim was a Mafia associate is the second movement from Anton Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27. When Carmela is preparing the food for her lunch with Vic Musto, "You're Still the One" by Shania Twain is playing in the background. The song played over the end credits is "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey;