Joe Pantoliano said he played the scene as if Ralph didn't set the fire and in his mind it really was an accident and their tempers flared and that was a wrap. I always looked at it like the horse was a metaphor for Tracee, subconsciously on Tony's part. "She was a beautiful innocent creature!!" as he's bashing his head on the kitchen floor. Plus after him and Chrissy go to the Bing to shower and clean up as he's leaving he stops and looks at the poloroid taped on the mirror of Tracee. That scene wasn't there on accident.

When the show was airing on HBO's website they would have little teaser photos of the upcoming episode and there was pictures of Tracee sitting at the table in a restaurant next to AJ that was a real "wtf" moment.....that turned out to be part of the dream Tony had in "The Test Dream" with Tony and family eating with Vin and Annette Benning. They must have deleted the scene where Tracee was sitting in for Meadow. But there was the scene where Tony was looking at Meadow in the kitchen and she turned into Tracee in his mind's eye for a second. Again, nothing was put in this show on accident. He was greatly bothered by what Ralph did that girl that was his daughter's age. Pie O My dying the way that she did where there wasn't 100% conclusive evidence it was an accident sealed Ralph's fate and was the straw that broke the camels back.