On top of that, how is Teddy not going to jail for shooting Tom? Apparently, there was some convoluted deal where the guys from the firehouse sold the bar to Tommy’s cousin Eddie in exchange for getting the charges against Teddy dropped. Honestly, it doesn’t even make sense. Also, Eddie has a chalk outline on the floor where Tom “died” and suggests Tommy lie down inside it and let people takes pictures of him in order to pay for his drinks.
As for his nearest and dearest, Tommy’s other cousin Mickey drives him into oncoming traffic in an attempt to scare him straight (even after coming so close to death, Tommy’s snuck a bag full of morphine out of the hospital); Teddy threatens to shoot him again if he drinks; his ever-annoying ex Janet punches him in the arm that was shot and that crazy woman Sheila bites him and tells him he has to get her son to quit the FDNY. WHAT THE HELL? Oh, and his daughter Colleen is now pouring herself stiff drinks in plain sight of her parents, who blow it off as better than her drinking in dive bars, while teenager Katie pour him a glass of whiskey. Lovely.
