A witness identifies Tony as one of two men leaving the scene of Matt's murder. After a press report that the murder is Mafia-related the witness retracts his statement. Pussy has another bad-tempered meeting with Skip Lipari and denies that he was the second man. Lipari orders him to record Tony admitting the murder. Dr. Melfi comments to Tony that he is scared. Tony and Richie use Davey's store’s credit to buy expensive merchandise to pay off his debt. They plan to continue this until the store goes bankrupt. Tony points out to Davey that the Executive Game was fair and Davey could just as easily have won, but he is not consoled and is close to suicide. Richie is dissatisfied with the cut he is getting from the store, and with the deal he has with the Soprano family's sanitation business. Egged on by Janice, he approaches Junior with the idea of eliminating Tony. Junior admonishes him, but Richie points out that Junior himself planned to kill Tony the previous year. Davey's wife does not know about Davey's disastrous debt to Tony. She is friends with Carmela and introduces her to her brother, Victor Musto. Carmela and Vic are immediately attracted to each other. He is a recently widowed interior decorator and Carmela engages him to wallpaper part of her house. They suddenly kiss when they are alone in a small powder-room. They arrange for him to come alone the next day, without his assistant, so that they can talk. That evening Victor meets Davey, who confesses that he is ruined, in debt to Tony Soprano. The next day Victor's assistant arrives at Carmela's house alone. Tony speaks cruelly to A.J. but feels badly and tries to get closer to him. At first A.J. resists, but they go out on Tony's boat and are happy together.
Title reference
A "bust out" is a fraud tactic, commonly used in the organized crime world, wherein a business' assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of bankruptcy. Richie and Tony profit from busting out Davey Scatino's sporting goods store in this episode.
"Bust out" is also a poker term that Poker News defines as: "To lose all your chips and thus be eliminated from a tournament."
At home, the eyewitness is reading Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick.
Richie tells Janice that Mafia rules dictate that an underling cannot kill a boss. She responds, "Tell that to Paul Castellano", referring to the assassination of Castellano by John Gotti.
Music
The piano instrumental playing at Nuovo Vesuvio during lunch with Carmela and Christine Scatino is "Cast Your Fate to the Wind".
The song "Con te partirò" by Andrea Bocelli appears for the third time this season, played as Carmela thinks about and receives a phone call from the handyman. This song was especially prominent in "Commendatori", playing when Carmela and her friends discussed hoping to be free of their husbands.
The music playing during the scene wherein the witness realizes the murder victim was a Mafia associate is the second movement from Anton Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27.
When Carmela is preparing the food for her lunch with Vic Musto, "You're Still the One" by Shania Twain is heard playing in the background.
The song played over the end credits is "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey; this song was also heard in the scene wherein painters were wallpapering the Sopranos' dining room.
