[Triumph36]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
1. Phil doesn't know that there was something said about his daughter.

[/ QUOTE ]

He doesn't?

He's the head of that family now, I figure he was the one who would order that kind of a move against a rival boss.

Phil calls the shots for NY, I can't see 2 guys below him just deciding on their own to go find Meadow Soprano in little Italy and threaten her without a guy like Phil, at trhe very least, being told about it before hand and afterward.

[/ QUOTE ]

The phrase 'I could smell the Sambuca on his breath' seems to suggest otherwise. And again, if Phil ordered it, for him to hold out is only to be expected - Phil doesn't care about money, he's a true tyrant. He's wanted this war since the Tony Blundetto incident, and now he's finally the unequivocal boss of the family.