The episode starts with a woman in a red dress. She is crying and her son asks her to come in his room and sing the Sandman song to him, the woman refers to the boy as Sammy.
Say Tyler wakes up in his armchair and he listens to a program about oil industry when for a moment president Bush’s face turns up on the TV. He goes out on the street and she a girl that is driving a bike and sings the same Sandman song. Sam follows the girl and sees a man hassling a lady. He arrests the man and while he is returning the hat to the lady he realises that his Mum, Rose Tyler. The man’s name is Nick Profaci and he works for the mob so the police let him go. The woman goes home too before Sam had possibility to talk to her so he goes and visits her. He says his name is Luke Skywalker. She tells him that her husband, Vic, had some money problems so that she took a loan from Profaci. Profaci works for a gangster, Elliot Casso, who gives them tips about crimes in exchange for the freedom to run
his bookmaking operations without police interference. Profaci kills woman but the police never investigates those crimes.
The detectives and Annie go to Elliot Casso’s club. Casso invites them to his private quarters where e has his own private party with prostitutes Adrienne and Jilly who work for him. Sam asks Croce to leave Rose Tyler alone and he promises that he would. Sam and Lu leave the private party and go back to the club when Profaci brings him bribe from Casso.
Sam refuses and tells to Lu that he’s rather burn that money than spend it. Profaci goes back to Casso and tells him that Sam has refused the money so Casso tells him to press on Rose Tyler as Sam seems to care so much about her. Next time Sam sees Rose she tells him that Profaci gave her 3 days to return the money. When Sam returns home Adrienne, Croce’s girl knocks on his door telling him that she was running away from that place and asks him for a place to sleep for one night. Actually Croce sent her to drug Sam and take photos of them having sex and getting a fix.
He manages to do that.