Always annoyed me how Tony in season2 just ignores the fact Junior tried to have him whacked!!! It's like he forgives him.
On one level it didn't make any sense but on a different level it was perfect for that character. As wicked and greedy and heartless as Tony is and despite the fact that he was on the verge of smothering his mother, he still had some familial love for Junior and recognized that Junior had been manipulated by Livia. Junior was a father figure for Tony.
That aside, keeping Junior around as bait for law enforcement and having Junior realize that he was just a front and that there was nothing he could do about it, was both good business for Tony and in some ways a greater revenge on Junior than getting rid of him.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
