When he said, "we're going to win this thing", what did he mean? I almost fell out of my chair when I heard this line while watching the show. In context of the show, I'm not sure what it meant, if anything. In context of real life, it was a direct reference to a current mob case. Former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio is accused of assisting one of his informants, former Colombo capo Greg Scarpa, in four murders (not the actual pulling of the trigger, but information, etc. that resulted in the murders). One of the pieces of evidence against DeVecchio comes from another FBI agent who, when he informed DeVecchio of the killing of two soldiers from another faction in the family, says DeVecchio slapped the table, looked pleased and said "We're going to win this thing." The other FBI agent took this to mean the Scarpa faction was going to win the war with the other faction (Little Vic's faction, if you care). DeVecchio says he meant that we (the FBI) and going to win this because the families are breaking up from the inside. You can read about the case online, but I thought I'd share the parallels between real life and reel life.