"So, she's a dancer, right?" "Broadway, summer stock, all that shit." "Who was telling me, Ginny used to do a little dancing herself, right?" "Taught ballet years ago." " Who's that?" " Nobody, Jersey." "Ralph Cifaretto's crew." "Anyway, I go over to her house one night... she's dressed like a fucking cat, like from that show." "Eye makeup, claws, the whole bit." "You okay?" "Pardon me a minute." " Donny, right?" " John, how you doing?" "What's the matter?" "Not funny anymore?" "Funny?" "What's the matter with you?" "Please!" "Funny?" "There's funny!" "Whoa, what the fuck?" " What'd he do?" " He's a cunt." "A sorry sack of shit." " Come on, let me get you out of here." " No, please." "Scumbag?" "Let me buy you a drink." "What the fuck?" "What are you doing still up?" "Penny Serenade was on AMC." "John, your coat!" "Is that Burberry?" " Oh, my God, what happened?" " Nothing." " I tripped." " You tripped where?" "I don't know." "The steps by Carmine's." "John, your hand is bleeding." "I used it to break my fall." "Jesus, what is this, the inquisition now?" "I had a few cognacs." "Go to sleep." "For tax-deferred growth the annuity's fine, but if I'm hearing you right... liquidity's the real concern?" "Well, we do occasionally need ready access to our money." "Honestly, guys, I'd recommend the life insurance trust." "That, coupled with a growth-oriented reallocation of your assets." "Including an assortment of other investment vehicles." "What, like classic cars?" "No, stocks, bonds." "I think he's pulling your leg, Brian." "Gotta remember that one." "So, great, we'll open an account, get the paperwork started." "Brian, look, no offense." "I know we're family, but let me think about it." "Run it by my accountant." "Ginsberg?" "He's a CPA, he's not an investment advisor." "Whatever, he knows about this stuff." "You know what, Carm?" "Talk to your accountant." "Two heads." "Dad, it's Uncle Sil!" "I gotta get that." "Say hello to Janelle." "I'll walk you out, Bri." "Hang it up, A.J.!" "What happened?" " Hey." " Hey yourself." "What the fuck, John?" "I got nothing to say." "You got nothing to say?" "That fucking kid is in intensive care." "I thought he worked for Ralph." "And Ralph works for me." "So, I ask you again, what the fuck?" "Let it suffice that I know and Carmine knows... that foppy cocksucker's holding out on us." "Fernandez Paving, Ralph's contracting company." "My guy read the receipts for the waterproofing at the Esplanade." "This fucking Ralph's more creative than Spielberg." "He's off almost $4,000, third time in a row now." "We agreed, no looting the job site." "First of all, that hasn't been established." "Second of all, this is how you handle it?" "Consider it a message." "He's in Miami." "They got phones there, last time I checked." "He's got a bad history, Tony." "Cute cocksucker could wind up dead." "What are you saying here?" "He's a two-faced fucking prick." " I thought Ralph was your friend." " Right, that's rich." "Did you hear what my "friend" said about my wife?" "He made a crack about Ginny's weight." "Something about her having a 90-pound mole on her ass." "Well, that's..." "That's deplorable." "Who told you this?" " What's important is that it was said." " lf he did say it, I didn't hear it." "'Cause he knows better than to make a remark like that when I'm around." "She's fighting a weight problem since the kids were born." "Weight Watchers, Richard Simmons, fasting." " She works very fucking hard." " You're telling me how hard it is?" "It's different for women." "Body image, self-esteem." "I'll tell you, though." "I never had a problem with Ginny's weight." "To me, she's beautiful." "Rubenesque." "That woman is my life." "To think she's being mocked..." "All right, look, John..." "I'm not gonna sit here and deny that Ralph can be a fucking asshole." "And that was a horrible thing to say." "But even if it was said, you can't be serious about him winding up... you know." "She's the mother of my children." "I know she is, John." "At least hear Ralph out." "How long we go back?" "All of us?" "The kid last night..." "He was laughing." "About this?" "I don't know." "All right." "You're right." "It's just been sticking in my craw." "So, this kid gonna be okay?" "I don't know, he's still unconscious." "My fucking temper." "Is he married, children, anything?" "Lives with his mother." "I'll send her something nice." "I'm surprised he didn't call you." "Who knows?" "Maybe he'll be right back." "One sugar, right?" "So, how are things at Casa Del Furio?" "The Pakistani, the neighbor." "I want to make my garage into the guesthouse so my parents can visit." "He says to me, because of the rules, I cannot do it." "Right, the zoning." "The man who sells me the house, he says nothing." "As far as I remember... once title has passed, you have no legal recourse." "Anyway... next week, I make a party for the housewarm." "What a nice idea." "This is my real estate exam." "There's one more prep course I want to take." "So, next Sunday is the party." "We will be there." "Now, here, you see?" ""Except in cases of demonstrable fraud..." ""transfer of title is binding once the grantee registers the deed with the county clerk."" "Some people say college only serves to show grad schools... who managed to show up somewhere four years in a row." "But volunteering at the law center actually allows you to make a difference." "Last year, with our help... over a half a dozen crack babies were reunited with their natural mothers... several of whom are now in recovery." "Eventually, with the help of ACLU attorneys... you'll be filing court papers and helping with legal research." "There's a sign-up sheet and some fliers if you're interested." "Thanks." "That's so true what you said about college being an audition for grad school." "So much for higher learning." "Living in the moment?" "Check out the law center." "There's some really cool people there." "There were 15 guys at the dinner when Ralph told that joke." " Could be anybody flapping their gums." " What I don't get is why." "What's the upside of telling Johnny that?" " Get in good with New York somehow." " Loose lips sink ships." "First, John knows about flipping the property by the Esplanade, now this shit." "How about Patsy?" "He's had issues, maybe he's holding a grudge." "You really think he's that cagey?" " Albert, then." " Wait a minute." "What if Vesuvio's bugged and the fucking feds told Johnny?" " Conspiracy theories now?" " Why not?" "Create a little dysentery among the ranks?" "First of all, the place is swept once a week." "As for the feds, there's more interesting shit being talked about in there... besides Ginny's fat ass." "Sil?" "The liquor inspector's here." "What do you think?" " It's not possible, right?" " Silvio talking to Johnny?" "You never know, T." "Jason's always been a well-adjusted young man." "So why now, Elliot?" "Three years at Bard and suddenly now as a senior, this epic drift?" "No focus, no drive." "He's actually talked about dropping out and joining the forestry service." "Well, some people thrive on solitude." "Senior year." "There's something about the light at the end of that tunnel that can be very frightening." "Saskia's a senior." "Is she going through any of this?" "Sask has always been highly motivated." "Kenahora." "Where's Richard in all this anyway?" "Jason barely speaks to him anymore." " Since when?" " Right after the rape." "Jason may be feeling guilty himself, Jen." "He's powerless to avenge you... and resents his father for the same shortcomings." "Hey, George Hamilton." "How's the back?" "Oh, the masseuse down there, the Del Ray?" "Magic fucking fingers." " Tony call?" " On his way." " He know you broke up with his sister?" " No, no." "Not unless she told him." " You know what that crazy bitch was into?" " What?" "She wanted to stick a dildo up my ass... make believe she was pimping me out." "I told her, "Get the fuck out of here!"" " What the fuck?" " The whole family's nuts." "How are you?" "How you doing?" "Fellas, take this shit to my house." "Open some windows, air the place out." "For you, Florida's finest." "Thanks." "How's Donny K.?" "I was just asking them about that." "I gotta get over there, get the full report." "Any idea who's writing the family gossip column?" "You know, funny thing about that..." "I don't remember saying anything about Ginny." "Come on, Ralph." "I was sitting right there." "Then maybe I said something." "I forget." "There was a lot of wine that night." "What about the land deal, Frelinghuysen Avenue?" "You forget, and maybe tell him that you, me and Zellman made all that money?" "Did I tell him about it?" "No." "But I sure as shit ended up paying for it." "When you think about it, Johnny's got some balls." "Big house, lining his pocket with our hard-earned cash?" "Who's he think's keeping that fat bitch in Devil Dogs anyway?" "Whatever he is, he's also Carmine's underboss... so you're gonna fucking placate him." "Oh, what, apologize?" "No, you do that, it'll be worse." "Whoever told him this, it's your word against theirs." "You're highly fucking outraged." "Hello, sweetie." "It's your secret admirer." "Is he there?" "Oh hi, Ralph, one sec." "John, Ralph Cifaretto!" " I'll take it in there." " Okay, hon." " John, it's me." " And?" "And I'm calling to tell you how appalled I am." "I just got back, I talked to Tony." "I love Ginny, I would never say anything like that." "That's not what I heard." "From who, John?" "I don't betray confidences." "Are you denying you said it?" "Fuck, yes, I'm denying I said it." "I don't believe you." "Just tell me who said this, I'll put a bullet in their fucking eye!" "You're a real weasel, you know that?" "John, please." "Look, last year, when Tony and I had our thing, that misunderstanding... you were the voice of reason." "You were the one that told me to apologize." "So, you're apologizing?" "If that's what it takes." "Why would you?" "I thought you didn't say it." " I didn't say it." " You know something, Ralph?" "Not only are you a thief, you're a lying fucking prick." "I should've let Tony chop your head off a year ago." "What did I say?" "No apology!" "I want you to sanction a hit on Ralph Cifaretto." "What, are you fucking kidding me?" "He violated my wife's honor." "Ralph slept with Ginny?" "He insulted her." "He made a very insensitive joke about her body to some friends of ours." " What did he say?" " I have to repeat it?" " My word's not good enough?" " Not if you want him clipped over it." "He said... she was having a 90-pound mole removed from her ass." "The implication was, her ass is so big... she could have a mole that size removed from it." "It's an off-color remark, it was highly inappropriate." "If you want, I'll demand he's taxed." "But clip him?" "Is it all just about money?" "I'll crack him good." " I'll ask for $200,000." " $200,000 for insulting my wife?" "What's next, Carmine, he get to fuck her for $1 million?" "He wants to fuck her?" "I'm making a point, I'm talking about my wife's honor here!" "My honor!" "We depend on this guy." "There are millions of dollars at stake." "We can't afford it, John." "A roomful of guys making fun of my wife... and you're not gonna let me deal with this?" "Not that way." "My answer's gotta be no." "I want a sit-down then, with Ralph the fucking thief." "Get this Fernandez Paving bullshit dealt with." "He was accused of a crime of severe immorality." "They actually beat him for it with sticks." "The truth was he had a photograph of Britney Spears with his belongings." "That's horrible." "Dad?" "Thought I was in the wrong place." "What are you doing here?" "I was looking for a glass of milk to dunk these in... and I thought maybe you could help me out." "Got a meeting in the city later." " Rahimah, this is my dad." " How you doing?" " Hello." " Want a donut?" "No, thanks." " I'll see you later, Meadow." " Okay." "So, what's this your mother tells me about you joining the legal aid society?" "South Bronx Law Center." "I'm volunteering." "They provide free legal counsel for the indigent and disenfranchised." "And this Rahoomi, she's what, your first client?" "What happened to being a pediatrician?" "I thought that was a great field for you, the way you love kids." "Nothing happened to it." "I can't explore some career options?" "Oh, defending farebeaters is a career?" "Is that why you came here, to annoy me?" "Hey, you wanna help people, that's fine." "That's very noble." "Really, I mean it." "Just don't be a sucker, okay?" "A lot of these indigenous types... they got plenty of money to smoke crack and gamble and all that shit." "You ought to know." "Oh, I see." "That's what this is?" "You're working with minorities now, to get back at me for being mean to Noel." "God, listen to you." "Believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around you." "Come on, let's go to the bookstore." "You probably need a sweatshirt or something." "Hey, take it easy!" "How was the traffic?" "Tunnel was a little backed up." "This time of day, G.W., you zip right over." "All right, let's straighten this out." "I talked to the guy over at Fernandez Paving, the accountant." "Fernandez has been using this jerk for years." "Anyway, it turns out you're right." "The guy's been adding 50 gallons of sealant every 1,000 yards." "Excuse me, I can't do this." " What?" " What's wrong?" "I can't listen to this bullshit." " I'm trying to explain." " Fuck you!" " John, please." " Don't fucking "John" me!" " Hey, we're trying to settle this." " It's not about that." "I'm sorry, Carmine." "I can't be in the same room with this man." "Have you talked to Jason La Penna lately?" "Actually, I try not to." "When I came out, he acted all weird." "I can't believe I actually kissed him once." "His mother tells me he's having a rough time of it." "Jen?" "Please, I'm sure she's overreacting." "Apparently, he's talked about dropping out." "He's okay, but Jason is like the clichéd psychiatrist's kid." "Slightest bump in the road, he knows exactly what to say to get attention." " There any of that crumb cake left?" " Counter." "What's all that?" "I'm consolidating some bills." "Maybe you don't care about our future, Tony, but I do." "Where do you get that I don't care?" " I met with your cousin." " Yeah, you met with Brian." "You sat there eating cake and making wisecracks." "It's boring to me, okay?" "You gonna cry now?" " What the hell is wrong with you?" " When you ignore me, Tony... when you trivialize things that are important to me... like this family's financial security, it makes me feel unloved." "That's your problem right there, because you equate love with money!" "You equate love with money!" " Is it safe?" " We each got a new cell phone." "Talk on it once, you toss it." "Totally untraceable." "It's what the Taliban used to do." "Let's get started." "My daughter-in-law's coming here with the baby later." " Hello?" " Is he there?" "Yeah, Ton'." "Okay, you're all set." " Just talk into there." " Junior?" "Who's that?" "Tony?" "Junior, it's Carmine." "How you doing?" "I'm going to the poorhouse, that's how I'm doing." "When you had that RICO trial, what'd that run you?" " A lot." " Where you going?" "I told you, I gotta pick up Sophia." "Junior, can we do this already?" "Yeah, right." "Johnny and Ralph Cifaretto, right?" " Ralph insulted John's wife?" " That's correct." " Who's on the wire now?" " It's John, Corrado." "So, what did Ralph do exactly?" "He made a very hurtful remark, it's not worth repeating." "It's not important." "Let's just agree it was unkind." "Let's point out, too... that it's only been alleged something was said." "He "allegedly" said what he said to a group of people, friends of ours." "If you weren't there, how do you know it's true?" " I'm not at liberty to say." " All due respect, but this is bullshit." "Somebody in my family's talking out of school... and you're not at liberty to say who?" "I should be making the beef here." "My nephew's right." "Let's stick to the issue." "A horrible insult was made against Ginny." " End of fucking story." " What does he want done about it?" "I want to avenge her honor, as is my right to do." "All right, fine." "You tell me who told you about it, we'll bring him in here." "He corroborates what you're saying, I'll give you Ralph on a platter." "Is nothing sacred?" "I mean, this is my wife we're talking about here." "If this were years ago, would I even have had to ask?" "I mean, what happened to this thing?" "For God's sake, we bend more rules than the Catholic Church." "All right, look." "Let's assume, for the sake of argument..." "Ralph said what you think he said." " Is clipping him gonna unring that bell?" " Nobody's getting clipped." "I want satisfaction." " Will you accept an apology?" " That ship has sailed." "You're being unreasonable." "Ralph Cifaretto's the only one who can handle the Esplanade?" " Put Pontecorvo in there." " There are millions of dollars at stake." " Again with the money?" " Yeah, again with the money." "It's settled, John." "So either name a price, or get the fuck over it." "What would you say to a piece of Ralph's company?" "Just think about it at least." "Just think about it at least." "Hello?" "It's me." "What, are you still asleep?" "No, I was doing something." "I took John to dinner last night." "Ralph's got a big problem, kid." " I thought you squashed it." " I did." "Problem is, I don't know if John's hearing me." " What are you gonna do about it?" " Me?" "Nothing." " What does that mean?" " I didn't say nothing." "We share the Esplanade, Tony." "I don't want that apple cart upset." "Then somebody should do something about it." "I appreciate your thoughts." " You saying what I think you're saying?" " I didn't say nothing." "All right then, I'll talk to you." "Twenty years, I've been friends with John." "Now he's gotta go." "All over a stupid joke." "I was fucking around." "For Christ's sakes!" "You've never made a joke about Ginny Sack?" " Not like that." " Of course not." "Fuck him and his highfalutin bullshit." "Who does he think he is, Sir Walter Raleigh?" "That's enough of you and your stupid fucking remarks!" "Go back to Miami and play volleyball, whatever the fuck you do down there... while we clean up your fucking mess!" "Maybe even keep your ass alive." "A mole on her ass?" "What's the joke?" "I still don't get it." "It's not a joke, per se, it's..." "You had to be there." "Real lack of standards, your generation." "My day, John was right." "A man wouldn't be expected to stand for such a remark." "Fucked up thing is I don't even like Ralph." "If he was drowning, I'd throw him a cinderblock." "But not protect one of my own captains?" "Besides, it's too late anyway." " Carmine gave me the nod." " On Johnny?" "That one's a slippery fuck." "Him and those big fish-lips of his." "Look at this." "The fifth question and the poor prick used all his lifelines." "John goes..." "Carmine's gonna position himself for maximum deniability." "So you make it easy for everybody, take it out of the neighborhood." " What, like an accident?" " Accident, stickup." "He could choke on a chicken wing." "The important thing, Johnny disappears." "With Johnny out, Carmine's gonna put his son in there." "Fucking Brainless II." "Who knows?" "Maybe there's an upside to Johnny going." "He goes to Boston a lot, to visit his father." "Could happen up there." "You want my advice?" "You'll call Lou Dimaggio." "The Atwell Avenue boys." "What, those sick old fucks in Rhode Island?" "They may be old, my little nephew, but those dogs can still hunt." "My old man used to talk about them... something to do with drugs." "Heroin." "Back in the '50s, it was raining cash with that shit." "Dimaggio and his crew never saw a dime." "The guy they worked for, Lenny Caputo, he didn't believe in it." "For 15 years... everyone and their mother was getting rich dealing H." "Everyone except these guys." "They're eking a living doing hits, running swag." "Anyway, lo and behold, one day..." "Lenny gets pinched for heroin trafficking." "It turns out the cocksucker's been making a fortune... working with the mulignon, and not only that... he's been selling out his own guys to the feds... so he can keep his ass out on the street." "Dimaggio and another guy in his crew did eight years on a murder rap." "So much for loyalty." "You go to Rhode Island, and whatever you do, don't mention drugs." "Coke, heroin, not even Tylenol." "So, what happened to this Lenny prick?" "Lou Dimaggio." "His real name is Galina." "They called him Dimaggio when Lenny and his wife were found... with their heads bashed in by a baseball bat." "Anyway, that was Lou, while he still had his health." "We could do this ourselves." "Ninja style." "Father?" "We're here to see Lou Dimaggio." "Come in." "Hello." "Silvio Dante, we spoke on the phone." "Chris Moltisanti, how you doing?" " My name's Chris, too." " Yeah?" " Are you into drugs?" " What?" "No." " What do you mean?" " We don't work for drug dealers." " No." " Of course not." " Want some coffee?" " No thanks." "Rose?" " Yeah, Pop?" " More Sanka." "Anyway, this is him." "John Sacrimoni." "He'll be coming up through here, next few days." "He stays at the Boston Harbor Hotel." "The guy on the left." "It's my birthday, too." "We're having cake later." "Carvel." "Chromosomes." "Runs in the family." "There was a guy once, Tommy Neri." "Got him coming home from the track one night." "Caught him good with a tire iron." "When he woke up, I held him down... while Frank cut his head off with a hacksaw." "Silent as a mouse pissing on cotton." "If you like... we could arrange to have that same thing happen again." "I don't know that we need to be that overstated." "What did you have in mind, then?" "Nothing fancy, as long as he disappears." "It's your money." "Yeah, about that. $20,000, we said." "Half up-front." "So, we'll call you, then?" "Pop, Father's here." "Would you like some cake?" "Actually, we got a long ride back." "Have you seen my sweater, the cable-knit?" "The white one?" "It shrunk, I put it in the bag for Goodwill." "I told you I was gonna bring it up to Dad." "I'm sorry." "It's in the basement, near the card table." " Hello?" " It's me." "I just hung up with the guy, Jerry, from Fort Lauderdale." "That guy we're looking for, he's at the Del Ray Hotel in Miami." "Our friend with the paving problem." "Send someone over there tomorrow to take care of it then." "Are you sure you want to do this?" "I'd feel a lot better with the Pope's blessing." "Just do as you're told." "I'll deal with the fallout." "Who was that, hon?" "Nobody." "Plumber for the store." " What's that you're making?" " Fruit salad." "You want some?" "Low-fat whipped cream." "No." "You enjoy it, sweetie." "Why did I have to come?" "He's not even home." "Look who's here." "Carmela, Anthony, how you doing?" "We were just passing by, I figured we'd give it a shot." " No, we weren't." " Come, I show you." "I was working in the yard, clear the weeds." "Next year, I'll grow grapes for the Falanghina." "Gonna make my own wine." "It's gorgeous, Fur'." "So, that's the garage in question." "Anthony, don't wander off." " But I have to go to the bathroom." " Just stay put." "We're leaving in five minutes." "You're thinking of making that an apartment for your parents?" "A garage, I don't need it." "One time, back in Naples..." "I work in the garden as a landscaper for a very rich man." "Just me, I work there alone, growing olives." "My hands in the dirt... the hot sun." "I was never so happy in my life as when I work at that place." "Sometimes, I get the smell of olives... in a restaurant, in the store maybe." "It makes me very sad." "You know, I'm not sure, but I think if it was built before 1938... you can apply for a zoning variance." ""Pre-existing, non-conforming structure," I think it's called." "I just got it back from the Martinizing." "They do a nice job over there." "Say hi to Dad for me." "I put Allegra's graduation picture in a frame for him." " Love you." " I love you, too." "Careful driving." "Shit." "It's me." "Hello?" "Why is the door unlocked?" "Jesus, you scared the shit out of me." " What are you doing?" " I thought you left." "I forgot the sweater." " What are you doing on the floor?" " Nothing." "I was getting the laundry together." "What the hell's this?" "I thought you're on the Atkins." "I was!" "I am!" "It's hard, John!" "I'm trying!" "This is how you try?" "I'm not out of the house 10 minutes!" "I was dizzy, I was having low blood sugar." "What happened to the fruit salad?" "You were supposed to quit smoking and didn't!" "Nicotine's an addictive substance!" "What's wrong with you?" "Why are you yelling at me?" "Did I ever ask you to go on a diet?" "Did I ask you to be thin for me?" "The fasting, the NutriSystems, those goddamn Deal-A-Meal cards?" "It's the world, John." "Our culture." "Fuck that!" "Do you have any idea what you've done?" " What do you mean?" " You lied to me!" "You lied!" "I know I've gained weight these last few years." "I see the other wives, the way men look at them." "Don't I look at you like that?" "Haven't I always?" "It was your idea, all this dieting nonsense." "I want you to be proud of me." "I am proud of you." "I love you." " Welcome to the Del Ray Hotel." " Thank you." "Can I get your bags?" "Go on into the lobby." "I'll meet you inside." "Hello?" "Listen, it's me." "I just talked to my guy again, we're calling it off." "I'm already out here, though." "Like right there." "We'll work something out, then." "Don't worry about it." " I want half." " All right, whatever." "Getting out?" "No." "What's your fucking problem?" " I love the pine flooring." " I know, it's so rustic." "This is pretty cool." "It's actually from Italy." "I'm so bored, I feel like crying." "It's adorable, Furio, really." " I'm gonna be leaving soon." " Come on." "Stick around." "Have some food." "Anything from our friends up north?" "Carmine called." "Johnny's still in town." "I'm not kidding." "There's tons of toys in there he said you could have." "They're back behind those boxes." "Bullshit, you're gonna lock me in." "Okay, fine." "But don't say I didn't tell you." "He gets them from Italy." "His father owns a steamship company." " Okay." " Go ahead, I'll get the flashlight." "Help!" "Let me out of here!" "Gabriella, come." "Come on, dance." "Silvio, you tell her, she can't wear fancy shoes and no dance, come on." " Shake it up a little." " No." " Come on, Dad, dance with me." " No, thanks." "Tommy Tune over there." "Carmela." "You come, too." "Yeah, Carm, go ahead, good idea." "You watch me, you do the same." "Everybody, come on." "Everybody, come on." " That's it." " God, I'm so bad." "No, you're good, come." "At least it's not just Jason who's regressing." "Soprano?" "His own daughter was going through the same thing." "I felt like such a fraud giving him advice." "My own son has three years on his daughter... and look how he's acting." "Jen, why do you still feel guilty?" "Sometimes I wonder... if Richard had a point." "I shouldn't have gone down into that garage that late at night." "I went to see Sask at school the other day... and I'm in the parking garage over there." "I was driving around for 20 minutes... when finally I spot someone leaving, this big, Bluto sort of guy." "I must have crowded him as he headed for his car." "Anyway, he turned around... and became quite confrontational." "And for a second, I'll admit, I thought of you." "What are you getting at?" "Parking garages are not inherently dangerous places." "You cannot blame yourself for what happened to you." "Turns out this guy was probably another parent... or, more likely, a repairman." "But if he had dragged me out of my car and beaten me up... would I be saying, "Gee, I shouldn't have tried to park my car?"" "Anyway, enough about him." "Let's get back to you." "You wanted to see me?" "You can tell Ralph I've decided to accept his apology." "You know that kid you pissed on?" "Donny K.?" "He's got fucking nerve damage on his left side." "I'm sorry, Tony." "I bet you are." "I'll expect to hear from Ralph, then." "Why the big reversal all of a sudden?" "No more weight remarks, Tony." "They're hurtful, and they're destructive." "I agree." "Still awake?" "I'm just reading." "Bought you something." "What's this for?" "No reason." "I don't know if I believe that." "Put a call in to Ginsberg, by the way." "He's back from California." "Tony, this is beautiful." "What size is this?" "I don't know, small." "I don't know if this'll fit." "Try it on." "See?" "I knew you could pull it off." " You look like a model." " Listen to him now." "I'm sorry, Tony." " What's the matter?" " I can't, the music." "Meadow, turn it off!" "What?" "The music, will you turn it down, please?" "I'm going out." "When I look at the great pyramid... the marvel there for me is not the stonework... as much as the level of organization... that these ancient Egyptians had... getting this society to pull together in such a way... that they not only had blocks of stone... but bread on the table." "Stone setters were all fairly accomplished." "Very good craftsmen." "It isn't surprising... they had such a long history, thousands of years doing this." "Meet me in 20 minutes at the old Webendorfer factory parking lot." "The real gigantic pyramids... were built within the space of about three, maybe four generations." "Jesus Christ!" "It's true, they're gonna start a draft." "There's no way I'm going in the army." "Yeah, 'cause his old man'd put a horse's head in some senator's bed." " Insert foot in mouth, Jason." " No big." "Ever get paranoid they'll, like, shoot up your house like in Godfather II?" " Probably got armed guards at night." " That shit doesn't happen anymore." " You have attack dogs on the property." " No." "I mean, we did, but she got hit by a car." "Jason said your old man's mostly legit now, anyway." "Yeah, like what?" " He's in waste management." " Garbage?" "Recycling." "What about drugs and prostitution and shit?" "No." " His dad owns a strip club, though." " Let's go." "We'd get carded." "We can just stop by, and watch the strippers coming in and out, right?" "What's going on?" "Truckload the other night from Port Elizabeth?" "Give the washing machines to Frank Contino." "You got it." "Vacuum cleaners, too?" "No, Patsy's got a buyer for those." "You been drinking?" "Me and Ade had some wine at the house." "Been wanting to talk to you." "Yeah, been wanting to talk to you, too." "I'll go first." "I gotta make it my number-one priority... to limit my exposure to potentially damaging conversations and wiretaps." "Sure, guy in your position..." "So, over the next couple of years, more and more..." "I'm gonna be giving my orders through you... and then finally, only through you." "What about Sil?" "You got that with him and Paulie." "Those other guys, Sil, Paulie... one thing they're not... they're not my blood." "You hear what I'm saying to you?" "It's a matter of trust." "It's very wise." "Sil's a good consiglieri, and will continue as such." "But he's no fucking spring chicken either." "But it's no reason to be giving him an attitude." "No, of course not." "And there's gonna be a period of transition." "Jesus Christ, T!" "You're gonna take this family into the 21st century." "We're already in the 21st century, though." "Whatever you say, T. I'd follow you into the gates of hell." "That's what I was gonna say to you." "What you did for me, that fuck who killed my father..." "I'll never forget that." "I only hope I'm worthy." " Why wouldn't you be worthy?" " I'm just saying." "Yeah, this looks familiar." "The pizza parlor." "Pull over, Matt." "This is it?" " It's closed." " Shit." "This place, this is the pork store." "It's a gay strip club?" "Obviously it's not a strip club, it's a fucking butcher shop." "I think I got it all messed up." "This is where my dad's office is." "Okay, it's a front." " Like Genco Olive Oil." " Yeah, it's like Genco." " It looks really clandestine." " So where's the strip club, A.J.?" "Maybe Route 17, or Route 4." "Lodi or something?" "This is stupid." "Let's go." "I heard a car." "Your son's out past curfew again." " Call his cell?" " My goodness." "I didn't know anybody else was here." "I just use the men's room." "Sometimes I worry about Furio." "Doesn't he seem lonely?" "I was telling Jessica about him this morning... the hygienist in Dr. Mascera's office?" "I know I shouldn't gossip, but..." "I think she was having an affair with Dr. Mascera." "Here she is." " Their office Christmas card." " Yeah, there's his hand on her ass." "Stop it." "I think she's ready for somebody nice." "And she seemed very receptive when I described Furio to her." "She's not his type." "What's his type?" "Don't worry about him." "Stay out of it." " One date won't hurt." " Why do you wanna bother?" "My little Hello, Dolly!" "Speaking of gossip." "That noise in the Mercedes?" "Yeah?" "Brought it over to Globe Motors to have it looked at." "And I was talking to Jerry in the service department?" "Now, remember that nice sales lady?" "I don't think so." "Gloria Trillo, she gave me a ride home that day?" "You know what Jerry told me about her?" "She died." "She what?" "She committed suicide." "Isn't that awful?" "Mr. Empathy over there." "She hung herself from a chandelier." "Good evening, Vesuvio." "I'm sorry, we aren't taking any more reservations, the kitchen is closing." "$50,000." "That's a lotta escarole." " Did you try the bank?" " Escarole?" "Escarole." "Money." "Escarole." "Money." "Good." "No, the bank, red tape." "I have only until the end of the week." "I told my brother you know people who lend money." "Little pitchers have big ears." "I just need it for 10 days and then, pas de problème." " Do you mind if I ask what for?" " Some business in France." "A group is purchasing an Armagnac property." "I got the dossier right here." "Jesus!" "Domaine Vézelay." "After Darroze, one of the oldest, largest producers of Bas-Armagnac... which is on fire now in France, and all over Europe." "It's the next vodka." "This is a $10 million worldwide launch." "I got $100,000 into it, and I need $50,000 more to get..." " the North American distribution rights." " Armagnac?" "I'll bring you a bottle of Vézelay." "Unbelievable." " And with cigars, which are now very hot." " You only need the money for 10 days?" "How's that?" "Because when the deal is done, the advertising money is released to me." "You understand, these people that I might know... they don't know you." "So I wouldn't be just vouching for you." "I, in essence, would be the lender." "And it's gonna cost you." " How much?" " $10,000." "Merde." "$5,000." "$7,500." "Okay." "Charmaine, I don't think you know Elodi's brother, Jean-Philippe?" "Nice to meet you, but, Elodi, please... can you clear off table four?" "Thank you." " Charmaine, she's French?" " Not remotely." "She's a hostess." "Not a busboy." "What was... about, Arthur?" "It's just a venture capital thing with Jean-Philippe." "It wouldn't pass your high Wharton School of Business standards." "If you wanna bring in money... why don't you get your friend, Anthony Soprano, to pay his tab?" " It's close to $6,000." " I could have an empire like Bobby Flay." "And it still wouldn't be good enough for you." "Okay, I'll make you a deal." "We'll start working on your empire right after we pay the $10,000... of orthodenture Melissa's gonna need this year." "They're on allocation from the factory." "I don't know when we're going to get any more in." "But I'm free if you wanna take it for a spin." "Actually, I was working with one of your other salespeople last year." "She was really very helpful, I ought to give her the business." "Gloria Trillo?" "She's no longer with us." "You know where she went?" "Actually, she died." "What happened?" "She committed suicide." "Why?" "I mean... she was..." "Salesperson of the Year, or something." "I didn't know her that well." "But I got the impression she wasn't very lucky with men, that sort of thing." " When was this?" " Month ago, maybe two." "What'd she say?" "I mean, you know, in the papers you read... they always leave a note." "She did leave a note on her desk." "The police took it." "Later, they told us it was just copy for a classified ad." "She was selling her wolf stole." "Anyway, let me give you my card." "Chef Osso Bucco." "This is a rare pleasure." "Or is it medium-well?" "A little restaurant humor." "So, you know... if you brought a pair of dirty chef whites, my friend here'll suck out the stains for you." "Sit." "Okay, in a nutshell." " I'd like to borrow a little money." " How little?" "$50,000, just for a couple of weeks." " I'm upgrading the kitchen in the restaurant." " Get the fuck outta here." "What you take out of that bar... you must be sitting on money like King Croesus." "I wish." "I won't be able to lend you money for less than two points." " It's not a problem." " Just outta curiosity... what's going to happen in two weeks?" "The insurance check's gonna come." "I hate to do it, Artie... but I think I'm gonna pass." "Sorry." " Why not?" " 'Cause if you don't pay me back..." "I ain't gonna be able to hurt you." "So how you doing?" " What's going on?" " Nothing." "How about you?" "Fine, thank you." "Really?" "Business okay?" "Everybody hunky-dory?" "You know... onward and upward." "How's Gloria Trillo?" "She still hanging around?" " It's a terrible tragedy." " So you fucking knew." "You fucking lied!" "You let me fucking sit there!" "Please, sit down." "How the fuck am I supposed to trust you?" "You're my doctor." "Please, sit down." "You're scaring me." " You've been drinking." " Why the fuck didn't you help her?" " Sometimes you can't." " I bet you charged her enough, didn't you?" "Bet you didn't cut her a deal, 'cause you're an incompetent." "I give my patients everything I've got." "And when something like this happens, I'm devastated." "She was a good kid." "But she was fucking crazy, and I told you." "And I want you to know that I was up-front with her." "She knew I was married." "I'm aware of that." "Suicide, Jesus Christ!" "What the fuck?" "I have to respect confidentiality, even after a patient is dead." "But with something like this... there's no one cause." "You yourself just referred to her emotional problems." "She slipped through everyone's grasp." "She did it after me, I mean, admit it." "You know, she... reached out to me, for me to care... and I wasn't there for her." "Why are you so quick to blame yourself?" "Come in." " What's up?" "You want coffee?" " No." "Artie, you need a favor." " Why didn't you reach out to me?" " What are you talking about?" "Ralph Cifaretto called me and told me you came to him for money?" "You need something, you don't come to me?" " I'm your friend." " Right." "I didn't want to impinge on our friendship." "But, Artie, this is me..." "Tony." "If I was desperate, if Melissa had a tumor instead of an overbite..." "Madonna santo, knock wood... you'd be the first place I went to, but this was a business venture." " What kind of deal?" " Elodi's brother." "Needs a bridge loan, $50,000, and I get back $57,500 in 10 days." " Thought it was for the restaurant." " I told Ralphie that." "Don't want him going around me to the principals." " What for then?" " North American distribution rights... for Domaine Vézelay Armagnac." "It's the new vodka." "This stuff is sweeping Europe." "It's gonna be bigger than Stoli, Goose." "Who ever heard of Goose before?" "It's French vodka." "These guys, they're big players." "They're throwing millions behind product introduction." " All right, you got it." " I told you, Tony, no." "What the fuck am I?" "A toxic person or something?" "No, Tony, come on, please." "I'll charge you a point and a half." "And that's a lot fucking better than Ralph Cifaretto would do." "I insist." "Look here's, like, $3,000." "Somebody's gonna come by, give you the rest." "You're a great guy." "Come here." "It's a good idea." "Snifter, a nice cigar." "You'll see what I mean." "Dinner's almost ready." "Shit." "Which do you wanna see?" "This... or this?" "Cousin Brian's here!" "Be right down!" " Brian, how you doing?" " Good, Ton', great to see you." "Brian brought the papers." "He said you called him last night to hurry things along?" "Yeah, the Soprano family living trust, as discussed." "Now when I croak, it's her problem." "You have made me so happy." "And if I was, like, obnoxious about this, I'm sorry." "Come on." "That's my lava cookies for the bake sale." " Would you like a couple for your coffee?" " Thanks, but I gotta get back." "We'll see you and Janelle at the Billy Joel thing, right?" "Wouldn't miss it." "You know what, Ton'?" "It's a shame you didn't get eight tickets." "Furio and Jessica could have come." "It takes the pressure off of a blind date." "Heshie's guy could only get six." "I'll get the originals back to you." "I'll have a copy, get one to your lawyer." "All right." "You know, that's a nice suit." "What is it?" "Boss." " Yeah, I notice you like the good stuff." " My only vice." "Call this number." "You ask for Patsy." " Tell him I said to take care of you." " Thanks, Tony." " You're a great guy." " All right." " Don't forget to call on that meat order." " No problem." " Hi." " Hi." " Hi, Ma." "This is Devin." " Hi, Devin, how are you?" " Really well." "It's nice to meet you." " Thank you." " Anthony, you want to turn that down?" " Yeah." "If you kids are hungry, I can make a couple sandwiches." "No, we're fine, Ma." "Careful of my Lladró, please." "Yeah." "Don't worry." " What do you call it?" " Lladró." "I don't even wanna say how much it costs." "$3,000." "I really wanted to be alone with you." "Your house is out, right?" "My mom's boyfriend's using it as an office, and I'm not at my dad's till next week." " My sister's dorm." " At Columbia?" "Sure, let's go." "The 33 bus goes into the city every hour." "They're so smelly." "I'll call a car service." " How much is that?" " I'll put it on my AmEx." "I'll call her cell." " Hello?" " Hey, it's me." "I'm on my way into the city with a friend, and I thought maybe we could hook up?" "Wow, great." "I'm not on campus, but you could meet me." "Take the Cross Bronx Expressway to the corner of Brook Ave. and 161st Street." " Brook Avenue and what?" " 161st Street." " Okay." " All right, see you soon." "I pictured your house different." "I thought it'd be like Don Corleone's compound with gate, wall, big old Cadillacs." "Isn't that stupid?" "Our place in Tahoe looks exactly like Michael's in II." "Wow, really?" "No, we don't have a place in Tahoe." "We have a boat though." "I'm like a gangster dude's girlfriend." " Are you sure this is it?" " Brook Avenue and 161st Street." " Columbia?" "This looks like Harlem." " South Bronx." "Don't leave, okay?" "Help you?" "They're mine." "When did you get taller than me?" "Cheokay, this is my little brother." "Cheokay just got accepted at Yale Law." "What's happening?" " I'm Meadow, Politeness Man's sister." " I'm Devin." "Can I talk to you?" "This is what you do on a Friday night?" "The South Bronx Law Center." "It's a free criminal defense service for those who can't afford legal counsel." "I intern here." " I need to use your room." " What for?" "You know." "You've gotta be kidding." "Anthony, no." " Well, just for a little while." "Why not?" " I don't even wanna think about it." "It's my bed." "How am I gonna go in there after?" "We'll just stay on the coverlet." "We came all the way over here." "I thought you wanted to go into the city." "There's all this stuff going on." "I thought we'd go to the Alphabets." "A friend's reading." "She's a novelist." "The greatest cultural center in the world, and you came over here for sex?" "Probably just gonna cruise." "Is the tree up at Rockefeller Center yet?" "Look at the way these people have to live." "I think they're overwhelmed." "I mean, they're in a cycle, they keep having kids..." "I know." "We're just so insulated from reality." "I mean, we have everything we want." "When you think about it." "They're on food stamps and welfare." "And my mom could go out and buy a statue for $3,000." "It's $3,000." " We have a housekeeper three days a week." " We have one, too." "I guess I just lucked out to be rich and live in a big house." "Even somebody like Steve Mussel." "He's got all right clothes, but have you ever been to his house?" "I don't think so." "His dad's a math teacher." "They don't even have a dining room." "There's five people living there." "It's just this little box." "Here." "Arthur, already 80 seats tonight." "They come to see you." "I eat so much of your gnocchi, I'm gonna get a belly." "Elodi, is Jean-Philippe okay?" " What do you mean?" " He was gonna call me." "I left him a couple of messages, he didn't call back." "Did you hear from him?" "Does he call your mother?" "He always works strange hours." "The time difference." "By the time we're waking up... they're already at home, eating dinner in Toulouse." "I almost forget." "I bring you something." "Boulevard des Slows." "It's for the PA." "I have to put the flowers in the vases." "Problems with the investment, Arthur?" "What do you mean?" "Please." "What do you think?" "She suddenly wants to play "hide the boudin blanc" with you?" "We don't see you here anymore." "Or up at the house, either." "Christopher, he can't seem to shake this flu." "Yeah, I noticed his skin doesn't look so good." "He's just stressed out." "Which reminds me." "Billy Joel?" "Maybe you shouldn't count on us." "You mean, you might not be able to come?" "There's been all these problems at the Crazy Horse, and I don't know..." "What a shame, that's awful." "What am I gonna do with those tickets?" "God, I love marrow." "Remember Ma with the bone?" "Sounded like half-price day at the liposuction center." "Please." "It's nice, us having dinner together, catching up." "I'm just glad I'm in a position to do it." "Chocolate soufflé, gelato, sorbet sampler." " On the house." " Thank you." "Something for after dinner, I got a nice Armagnac." "I used to drink that in France." "Histamines." "I think it's good." "I know, Tony." "Can I have a Nonino Picolit?" " I know it's expensive." " Yeah, bring me one, too." "So you and Bobby Bacala, huh?" "So that's it." "What is so fucking compelling to you about my personal business?" "Jesus Christ, am I such an ogre?" "I was just gonna say he's a nice guy." "I gotta have an agenda?" "No, Tony." " I'm sorry." " What am I, a toxic person?" "You're a great brother." "We can go at it pretty good... but you always seem to reach out when it counts." "Yeah?" "Did you ever know anybody that... ever committed suicide?" "Plenty." "I used to live in Seattle, Tony." "Anybody close?" "Murray Furlong." "He was a good friend." "He lived upstairs." "People said he was in the CIA, gone for long periods of time and..." "I always thought he was gay." "I don't know." "Maybe that's not mutually exclusive." "Anyway... one day... he sucked on the end of a deer rifle." "Do you feel responsible?" "Yeah, I did." "You know, partly, we all did." "My last conversation with him was an argument... if you can call it that, about him asking me to accept FedEx packages for him." " But you never really know why." " Probably it was his name." "You can leave the bottle." "And, Artie, put that on my tab." "Of course." "Tony, can I talk to you?" "What's going on?" "I just wanna give you a little heads up." "I know the money's due in a couple of days." "I'm a little concerned." "I can't get a hold of Jean-Philippe, he doesn't return my calls." " Did you go over there?" " Not yet." "Artie, you gotta go over there." " The guy's not returning your phone calls." " I know." "They miss a payment, start acting like... they're doing you a favor if they give you anything." "And then you gotta spend all your time hounding 'em." "You gotta get your arms around this thing." "You know what I'm saying?" "Jean-Philippe, you're home." "I called you five times, qu'est-ce que c'est?" "Message machine broken?" "Nice crib." "What is that, Berber carpet?" "Those fucking shoes you wear... what are they, designer?" "You fucking avoiding me, motherfucker?" "Where's my money?" "What, are you gonna cry now?" "Stand up, you frog-eating faccia di cazz', I will fuck you up, man." "It's you." "Hello." "Come in." "You're home." "Qu'est-ce que c'est, man?" "Message machine broken?" "I'm sorry, I've been wishing to call you." "Nice crib." "You were supposed to give me my money two days ago." "I know." "Crédit Lyonnais, they didn't come through with the second round of financing yet." "My partners are sick about it." "That's not my problem, Jean-Philippe." " I want my money." " I just told you, I don't have it." " When are you gonna get it?" " I don't know, okay?" "I don't know." "It doesn't look too good." "What does that mean?" "I mean, I don't know if it's going to happen, all right?" "They were not convinced to our business model." "They didn't agree there was as much potential for Armagnac." "The problem has been, it seems, that people cannot figure out... how to market Armagnac." "The hip approach, like with Stoli, fails." "You said it was the next vodka!" "Hey, so we are big boys, we must move on." "Frog-eating, fucking faccia di cazz'." " What did you say?" " I said, I want my money!" "Are you stupid?" "That money's spent." "Operating expenses, notaires, travel." "No!" " You have my $50,000." " It's business, it's a risk." " I have a daughter who needs braces!" " Listen to me, I don't have it right now." "You fucking, French, fucking, lying cocksucker!" "Fuck your mother!" "My earring!" " You ripped my fucking ear!" " Du con." " I want my money." " Fuck you!" "I see you again, I'll kill you." "The thing is to keep knocking on the door without going in right away." "Poke the perimeter, tap on the gate till she's out of her fucking mind, begging." "Then you own that shit, that pussy's yours." "I think she's ready." "We shall know forsooth." "Liz has been to her house." "She says it's nice." "It doesn't look that great." "It's kind of Bo Peep-ish." "Can I help you?" "We're here to see Devin Pillsbury." "Proceed on up, park in the auto court." "Help you guys?" "It's okay, Ted." "Hi, guys." "You wanna pull it over here for me, sir?" "Wow, nice place." "Get outta here." "No, it's true." "Iceland is a volcano." "Hawaii is a volcano." "Come here." "Hello?" "I just want you to know that I tried." "And I didn't mean to hurt anybody." "And I love you, and I'm sorry I let you down." "Artie?" "What's the matter?" "What's wrong with you?" "I'm a complete and total failure." "You take care of Charmaine." "What did you do, Artie?" "What did you do?" "I'm just gonna go to sleep." "Artie, did you take something?" "Don't go to sleep!" "Artie, you hear me?" "Don't go to sleep!" "Jesus fucking Christ!" "What's wrong?" "You gotta go?" "A friend of mine." "Fucking idiot took some pills or something, he's trying to kill himself." "What the fuck am I doing?" "I'm gonna call 911." "They'll do him more good than I can." "I'm gonna call 911." "They'll do him more good than I can." " Are these real?" " Yeah." "So this is, like, a real Picasso?" "My dad collects his later stuff." "They're all cocks." "Picasso was an old man by then." "Shit, they must be worth millions, at least." "Isn't your dad afraid we're gonna steal them?" "What is that, a Sota turntable?" "Whoa, Patrick, little Mr. Consumer." "You don't like that?" "Do you want something else?" "No, just..." "I wish you would've said something." "It doesn't mean anything." "I feel so stupid." "My mother's stupid Lladró... and we have a housekeeper three days a week?" "I don't care." "I like you." "Rubber Soul in mint condition." "This has gotta be worth, what?" " You should've told me." " And what would you have done if I did?" "I don't know, but if it wasn't such a big deal, why didn't you say something?" "Jesus." "What happened?" "It all went to shit. "The next vodka."" "So this is what you do?" "But you don't understand." "The money's gone." "Can't you come and talk to me?" "I'm your friend." "Suppose you hadn't been able to reach me, and I go to your house and find you dead." "How am I supposed to feel?" "Take the restaurant." "I don't want the fucking restaurant." "Then how am I gonna pay you back?" "$50,000, it'd take the rest of my life." "It's $51,500, vig-wise, Artie... and technically, you already missed a payment." "All right, look, let's just..." "We'll wipe my tab at the restaurant." "Thank you." "Tony, that's what, $6,000?" "What about the rest of the money?" "I'll assume the guy's dead." " Collect the $50,000." " Thank you." "The cobwebs are now removed." "What the fuck are you talking about?" "You saw this whole thing, didn't you?" "You knew exactly what was gonna happen." "You can see 20 moves down the road." "Please, I don't blame you, I envy you." "It's like an instinct, like a hawk sees a little mouse... moving around a cornfield, from a mile up." "You think it's my fault you're fucking lying in here?" "It's just that somebody mentions $50,000... to bankroll a French digestif, and your mind... goes through all the permutations at, like, internet speed and realizes:" ""Worst case scenario:" "I eat for free."" "You fucking suicide!" " You're disgraceful!" " I'm sorry." "No, fuck that!" "Does anybody else know I loaned you the money?" " Like who?" " I don't give a fuck who." "Adriana, Father Intintola, my wife, anybody?" "All right, you got mugged." "Outside of your house, it was a street crime, kids." "They took your wallet and your watch." "Where are they?" " Why?" " Come on." "Why?" "You don't care what people think?" "I do!" "Enough people hate me." "You fought back, they ripped your earring outta your ear... you were bleeding, went inside the house, you took pills for the pain... 'cause you'd have to wait at the emergency room for a couple hours." "They pumped my stomach." "They saw the Armagnac." "You got fucking mugged!" "Do you understand me?" "I didn't loan you shit." "I had this dream." "My grandfather's sitting at a table, and in front of him is Steak Pizzaiola." "And standing next to him is my grandmother." "And she's wearing a blue dress and pouring him a glass of wine." "And he says to me, "You see this?" ""If you got a good wife, you're a millionaire."" "So the next day, I go over Carmela's house for dinner with her family." "And in front of me is Steak Pizzaiola." "Before I could realize the déjà vu that was going on..." "Carmela's standing next to me in a blue dress... pouring me a glass of soda." "The next day, I bought the ring." "That is so incredible, so romantic." "She's a romantic one, this one." " She gonna clean my teeth for me." " Really?" "I have to confess." "You know, sometimes, I find the dentist erotic." "Brian, all night, I admire your suit." "My man, Mr. Soprano, turned me on to it." "Nice." "Patsy?" " I'd like to propose a toast to our host." " Hear, hear." "Tony, great tickets, great meal, great wine... and for being a great guy, who I'm proud to call a new friend." "So he says I planned it all along... that I could see 20 steps down the road how it was gonna go... and how he was gonna get screwed." "Did you?" " See it?" " I don't know." "According to him, it's subconscious, second nature." " But the accusation bothers you." " Is that the kind of person I am?" "A hawk?" "That's an animal." "As I understand it, you make a lot of your living through usury." "So why the pangs of conscience this time?" "Do you think your reaction would've been the same, if it all... your friend taking the pills, all of it... hadn't happened a week or so after you found out about Gloria?" "I'll tell you one thing." "One suicide is bad enough, but two?" "They can both go fuck themselves." "I made a donation to the suicide hotline in her name... and that's it." "The projection screen in their media room was as big as the small ones at AMC." "I heard Mr. Pillsbury is some kind of financial corporate wiz or something?" " Dude, you're the Pillsbury dough boy." " Shut up." "Hey, A.J., how come your dad doesn't have that Don Corleone money?" "I don't know." "You are what you are when you are who you are" "You are what you are" "You know what you are when you are who you are where you are" "It's all about you" "Oh, motherfucker." "Wow." "Hey." "Look who's here." "Finally." "Look at her." "Her own business now." "I've got some radio ties to help with our Mondays and Tuesdays... plus I'm thinking about adding some contests later on." "Glenlivet, right, Ton'?" "Just seltzer, dear." "Christopher here?" "Is he supposed to be?" " You want me to call him?" " We're gonna sit down there." "VIP table's better!" "Hello?" "An FBI informant?" "I must've been out of cell phone range." "Your accountant didn't reach you?" "A.J. said he talked to you four hours ago." "Well, Ginsberg didn't call me." "I'm gonna fuck her face up before I kill her." "Look, I said I'll talk to him, so I'll talk to him." "Cousin Brian is dropping those estate papers off tomorrow." "Good, I'm anxious to look them over." "Let's give it up for No Soap Radio." "Was that a steamroller of a set?" "Pick up one of the new CDs for sale up at the front." "Come on, Giovanni." "Jesus Christ, he's pissing his pants." "You want me to do it again?" "There you go." "Looks pretty good!" "Okay, that's great." "Let's bring out your lover." "The weight she put on in rehab..." "How could she do that to herself?" "She always had a bad can." "It's genetic." "Hello?" "Hey, Ma, what's up?" "Adriana?" "You got a call." "Ma, hang on a sec." " Hello?" " Adriana, it's me." "Why the fuck are you calling me here?" "Don't hang up, because I'll just call back." "Ma, I'll call you later." "I know, Ma." "Goddamn it, I'll pick up the Sensodyne." " Norman, I got to take this." " Ade, I got a boliage at 11:00." "Are you following me?" "We wanna talk to you." "AB Bakery... route 10, East Hanover." "I got to drive all the way up there?" "You don't want us talking to you in your neighborhood." "And don't go anywhere." "We got a unit watching the beauty shop." " I'm getting lights and a wax." " We'll wait." "Janice, hi." "Listen, I can't stay." "I just brought Bobby Junior a couple of Xbox games... a friend of mine burned for him." "JoJo." "Hi." "What are you doing here?" "Janice, look at you." "I made Bobby and the kids some of my chicken marsala." "It's times like this, I remember when I lost Mikey." "It's impossible to think about food... but like the President says:" ""We have to keep going."" "The family's got to eat." "I'm picking up the kids after school, Bobby." "No argument." "He's hanging in, though, aren't you, Bobby?" "Leave those." "The girl's coming today." "Then I better do these pots at least." "I've seen Rigoberta with those copper tuffies." "What she's done to this Teflon." "Any time you want to drop Sophia and little Bobby off, don't be shy." "I mean it." "My kids would love it." "How is Michael Junior doing on the Ritalin?" "The way they medicate kids today..." "It's the answer for everything." "Then they wonder why teenagers get hooked on drugs." "If a child had diabetes, you'd give him insulin." "I didn't mean it like that." "Bobby's got to come home anyway." "Karen always made him do his homework before dinner... or it didn't get done." "The chicken, Bobby... put it in a 350 oven for 20 minutes." "You just want to heat it." "And if you have some egg noodles..." "It's better the first night." " Enjoy." " Thank you, JoJo." "Everybody's been so nice." "I'll bet." "Look at all these casseroles people brought." "Stuffed shells." "Gabriella." "Ziti." "Karen made that." " I'm sorry." " That's her last ziti before she died." "I didn't know." "I loved her so much." "I thank God for every day we had together." " She was an angel." " I know." "She was special." "Miss La Cerva." "Agent Harris." "We met." "This is agent Sanseverino." "Hi, Adriana." "Eat shit, Danielle." "Or whatever the fuck your name is." "Get you a latte?" "Scone?" "I just want you people to leave me alone." "How many times I have to tell you?" "I don't know anything." "You people are just trying to scare me." "Nobody's trying to hurt Christopher." "What was he doing in Yonkers last night?" "What?" " I don't know." " Somebody saw him having drinks... at the Renaissance Inn with an individual named Chip Zoto." "Christopher ever mention a Chip Zoto, or just plain Chip?" "No." "Here's what's problematic." "You don't even know where your boyfriend is." "How do you know if he's in trouble?" "He's into heroin, organized crime." "He's associating with some very dangerous people... not to mention Tony Soprano himself." "See, that's where you're wrong." "Tony would never let anything happen to Christopher." "They're cousins, he loves him." "He loved Pussy Bonpensiero." "What happened to him?" "He went in the Witness Protection program." "Dwight?" "He went into the program?" "You know anything about that?" " No." " I think we would've heard." "And your uncle Richie, I suppose he's in the program, too." "He is." "Isn't he?" "This is a way out for you." "You have your whole life in front of you." "We'd like to see you two have a chance." "Okay." "I'm gonna get back." "Where are you going?" "You're gonna be working with agent Sanseverino here." "What?" "Why?" "It's for your own safety." "And you know what we were talking about?" "About the little creatures?" "Good luck with that." "I mean it." "Fuck you." "The more you can tell us, the more we can help you and Christopher." "He doesn't need your help." "He can take care of himself." "You want some water?" "How's Tony been lately?" "I have no fucking idea." "I told you already." "Been over to the house?" "I don't go over there." "Hardly ever." "That should be your area of focus, if possible." "I don't feel so good." "A little more salt?" "No, it's delicious." " Listen, I was talking to cousin Brian..." " I'm seeing Ginsberg tomorrow." "No, not that." "He gave me a free tip on a medical stock that's gonna move soon." "He said we should put $10,000 in it." "$10,000?" "It's not that much." "Right." "It's not a meaningful investment." "That much of Dell Computer bought in 1989 is worth $5 million today." "We don't have that kind of money on hand right now." "Things are tight." "Don't you read the papers?" "The economy?" "It sounded like a wonderful opportunity." "What are you gonna do?" "Waldorf-Astoria for horses back here." "Groom, trainer, three meals a day." "No, watch out for the goat, it butts." "My Nina Lento cooked goat." "What's it doing here?" "Horses like company." "Seabiscuit had a horse he traveled with." "How do you like that?" "You own a horse, Tony?" "Please, as his accountant..." "I thought about it a couple times... but it's an animal, it's a commitment." "Don't tell me with the buck shins again?" "No, she's fine." "We had a great morning." "Jesus, that's a beautiful horse." "She'll be a bottle of LePage if she don't win this race." "Bubbala, you want a sure thing?" "Buy bonds." "Lois is the best trainer here." "This ciuccio, he sells me a horse." "The next week it starts losing." "I don't know what got into her." "She ran the whole race ahead by two lengths... and then she just stopped in the backstretch." " Stopped?" " Slowed down, finished fourth." " As in out of the money." " Maybe you should try holding her back." "Keep something for the finish." "Horse is a front runner." "She likes running up front." "So, what if she don't win?" "I have to agree with Lois here." "A horse has style, you don't fuck with it." "It's her kind of track today." "Fast." "She did draw the one hole." "Done, said, finished." "Tony, all due respect, I'm inclined to defer to the experts." "Me, too." "All right." "Wire to wire." "And tell that midget not to be shy with the whip." "If only his mother had taken that advice." "That's what you're wearing to court?" " I'll get it." " Now what?" "It's your niece." "Morning, Uncle Jun'." " Great tie." " What's that?" "Dinner tonight." "It's some delicious chicken marsala." "Murf, 350 oven for 20 minutes, just so it's hot." " And if you have some egg noodles..." " Go bring the car around." "Where you going?" " I'm getting my jacket." " I'll bring it." "Go get the car, we're late." "I got to go upstairs, get some change for the parking." "I've been meaning to get down to the court to show my solidarity." "But this thing with Bobby..." " He needs help with those kids." " He needs help?" " I'm on trial for my life." " He's gonna get through this." "When?" "I'm waiting like patience on a monument." "You really depend on him, don't you?" "This one, he drives like a little old lady." "Gas, brake, gas, brake." "You know, I remember Daddy said... that someday Bobby would be your linchpin." "My brother said that?" "Bobby was still a head waiter when Johnny died." "Bobby's doing better." "We had a very healing day yesterday." "I helped him go through Karen's things for Saint Vincent de Paul." " Psychologically, that's enormous." " Yesterday?" "Bobby was home?" "Why?" "He had to take care of something for me, that's why." "What was it?" "Goddamn it." "Each of us is alone in the fucking universe." "So this estate planning shit..." "Carmela wants it, and I got nothing against getting well set up." "Half of these cidrules live one day to the next." "The blue chip portfolio like your cousin's suggesting... to keep pace with inflation?" "If it makes your wife happy, go with God." "I'm supposed to make the money, she takes care of the house." "That's the way it should be." "Carmela's a smart woman." "If we start winning in the market... it's gonna be Intel this and Coca-Cola that." "It'll never end." "This other thing your cousin advised... the life insurance trust?" "Big red flag." "What?" "The kid said there was tremendous tax advantages." "To Carmela, when you die." "But present day, if something unforeseen should arise... divorce, say... that type of trust is irrevocable." "It can't be changed." "You have to petition the court, and even then..." "Don't get me wrong." "A trust, per se, is a good thing." "Avoids probate, prying eyes... but there's other ways to go." "Such as an inter vivos, a living trust." "Here they go." "They're in the gate, and they're off." " Come on, baby!" " Here we go." "Out of the gate, it's Vision Be Mine, Miss Rae Rae and Zucker's Mother... going for the lead." "Yeah Boy right there on the outside..." "Pie-O-My settling into fifth." "Go, goddamn it, go!" " Come on, move up!" " Come on, baby, come on!" "I hate this fucking pygmy." "What's he doing?" "Get her out of there!" "Move her up!" "Vision Be Mine following by a length, Pie-O-My back two lengths..." "No!" "I got $5,000 on her." "She's gonna make it, here we go!" "Come on, baby!" "Come on, girl!" "Zucker's Mother, Miss Rae Rae, Vision Be Mine, and Pie-O-My... joins the front runners." "She's coming around!" " Jesus, look at her go!" " Making a move on the outside... it's Pie-O-My, with a tremendous push, with tremendous speed." "Come on, girl!" "At the top of the stretch it's Pie-O-My... challenging Zucker's Mother for the lead." "Pie-O-My and Zucker's Mother!" "Pie-O-My and Zucker's Mother as we head for home!" "Pie-O-My pulling ahead..." "Pie-O-My with speed to burn, and it's Pie-O-My!" "Pie-O-My coming from behind to win it!" "Pie-O-My hits the wire first!" "Son of a bitch!" "I won!" "I'm rich!" "$5,000 at eight-to-one!" "Heading for the winner's circle is Pie-O-My, owned by Inez Munoz." "Who is that?" "That's his girlfriend." "I'll give you a shot in the fucking head." ""My girlfriend."" "It's his maid." "Right, the racing license." "Miss Munoz, as the owner of the winning horse... you'll receive an 8 x 10 glossy in two to four weeks." "You, Anthony." "What did you say? "Hold her back."" "You are not going unthanked." "You..." "I'm giving a taste of my win." "Hey, Inez!" "Come here, have some champagne." "Mr. Ralph, I don't know..." "There he is." "I wanna congratulate you." "I asked, and she was there." "You know, not for nothing." "The horse won, but that was not the agreed upon strategy." "Nicky didn't sit on it." "She was bumped out of the gate and got stuck in a speed trap." "So this coming behind, this was a fluke?" "This man here, he knew." "We all get lucky." "No, right is right, Anthony." "Fluke, escolar, whatever the fuck..." "I'm giving you your taste." " Your money's no good." " I insist." "She ran your race." "You called it." "End of story." "$300, $400, $500, $600." "And I need $150 more this week for A.J.'s football cleats." " In my day, they were $50." " $50?" "That's what I pay to get your suits out of the cleaners." "So you got those papers for me to sign?" " Brian's?" " I told you I'd talk to Ginsberg." "Got a pen?" "Anthony Soprano, that is wonderful." "That's so great, I am so impressed." ""Authorization to open an account."" "It's wherever there's a little red arrow." "And there." "You need to sign the agency papers here, too." "It gives Brian authorization to buy stocks on our behalf." "Where the little circles are here, initials?" "You will not regret this, Tony, truly." "This is the best thing for all of us." "It'll give us such peace of mind." "Wait, there's one more." "I'm not gonna sign that one." "Why not?" "I don't think it's a good idea." "But this is the trust." "It's in case something happens to you." " I'm not gonna sign it." " You have to." "Remember your children, your wife?" "So they don't end up out on the street?" "Yeah, well, there's better ones." " "In vitro" something." " What?" " What's wrong with this one?" " It's irrevocable." " We don't wanna get locked in." " To what?" ""Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."" "Excuse me?" "It's the government, Carm." "You've got to be flexible." "Jesus, Mary and Joseph." "Come on, Carm, be fair." "I gave you two out of three." "You gave me?" "In here, hon." "What're you doing in bed?" "We got dinner with Tony and Carmela." "I can't go." "I'm sick." " What do you mean?" " I don't know, I got chills and a fever." "I think I'm getting the flu." "I shouldn't go up there." "Come on, get dressed." "Couple of drinks, it'll kill the germs." " You'll forget it all." " You better go without me." "But you have to go." "This is the inner sanctum, here." "I'm not just a relative anymore." "You think Paulie and his cumares ever get invited to dinner with them?" "I'm sorry." "Maybe if I just sleep..." "Nothing ever goes my way." "Is that sausage?" "My mom made it with hamburger." "See?" "Just a spoonful, Jan. That's enough, thanks." "Why don't you kids tell Daddy what we saw on the way home from school today?" "The Fuji blimp over Willowbrook Mall?" "So?" "You kids seemed to like it when you saw it." "You begged me to follow it." "It was nice of you to pick them up for me." " And making dinner." " Enjoy, everybody." "It does smell good, doesn't it?" " Did you eat yet?" " I'll get something at home." "No, it's all right, isn't it, kids?" "Can we eat in front of the TV?" " That's rude." " No, kids." "I'm the one barging in." "You go right in there." "You know how to set up the TV trays." "You want a little more?" " Okay." "It's pretty good, actually." " Thank you, Bobby." "I told you I don't want them to be spoiled because they lost their mother." "I saw my uncle today." " Jesus." " That's right." "Is he mad?" "What's going on, Bobby?" "What were you supposed to do?" " Union business." " What's going on?" "This election coming up, that's all." "I'm the one that should've been in that car... not Karen." "And Junior's been so good to me, and I'm letting him down." "Fuck him!" "He only thinks of himself, selfish old fuck." "Now listen to me." "I know my uncle, he's a patient man." "But he's at the point, if you don't do your job... he'll find somebody who will, you know what I'm talking about?" "All your effort, all the years you put in getting your ticket punched... you'll be a nobody." "I don't care anymore." "That's the problem." "I don't care if I live or die." "We lose that luxury when we have children." "I remember my son Harpo, when my husband left us..." "I had both barrels of a shotgun in my mouth... but then just one thought of Harpo... my little boy without his mother..." "Every day is worse than the last." "My uncle loves you." "He needs you." "So you're going to get up tomorrow morning... and you're going to get dressed, and you're going to get in that car... and you're going to do what needs to be done, aren't you?" "Okay, then." "Now will you eat something?" "Show me one of those trusts, the living ones." "Okay, I can see where you'd want more mutability, Ton'." "Mutability mean money?" "Because that's what I want." "Carmela's cousin, Brian Cammarata." "Ralphie Cifaretto." " This is the life." " What life's that?" "I didn't mean..." "I'm kidding, just kidding." "Any cousin of Tony's..." "Lois, how's she look today?" "Been clocking her best fractions yet, 21.45." "She's in some rich company, though." "Zucker's Mother again." "And this other one, frigging Kentucky thoroughbred." "You wanted a stakes horse, this is a stakes race." "I think she's ready." "So, Dr. Dolittle, any thoughts?" "Only six furlongs." "She should run it head-to-head." "Excuse me, señor, if I'd listened to you last time..." "She's right." "Short race like this, let her blow them away." "Foolish that I am..." "I'm going to place some bets." "They're all in line, and they're off." "Look." "The five horse bumped her." "You see that, piece of shit!" "Come on, baby!" "It's Zucker's Mother with Tenant's Harbor to the inside in the lead." "Zucker's Mother, Lil' Camille, Pie-O-My and Tenant's Harbor sprint for the lead." " Run, goddamn it!" " Go!" "Coming to the top, Pie-O-My has the rail in the lead..." "Pie-O-My ahead by two lengths as they..." "Run, you fucking nag!" " Come on, Pie!" " Come on, baby, go!" "She's pulling ahead!" "Here comes Lil' Camille from the outside." " Come on, Pie!" " Go!" "He can't get you!" " She just can't beat Pie-O-My." " Yeah, baby!" "Pie-O-My hits the wire first, Lil' Camille was second and Tenant's Harbor, third." "Beautiful!" "Damn it, I bet to show." "What'd you win, $5?" "My financial advisor." "This is it." "This is happiness." "Winning is one thing, but when it's your horse, right?" "Yeah." "Once again, your horse wisdom is not going unappreciated." "Heading to the winner's circle is Pie-O-My." "Pie-O-My is owned by Inez Munoz... and trained by Lois Pettit." "I see the flowers got here." "Which you like better, the lilies or the roses?" "I came into some cash." "Sold a property down on Frelinghuysen Avenue." "It's okay, let's buy that stock." "It split." "It's too late, we missed it." "You're Teddy Genaretti, aren't you?" "The shop steward for local 184?" "Guilty." "You a joint fitter?" "What can I get you?" "Wild Turkey, neat." "I saw your Caravan in the lot." "It's a nice car for a family." " Do I know you?" " Jim Blake." "What local you in?" "Bad back." "I follow these things, you know, with this election coming up." "Dick Hoffman for President?" "I heard he's got 184's vote." "I think it's a mistake." "Pension's been ripped off for the last 25 years." "I'm sure you guys got grievances, but Dick Hoffman?" "What do you owe this guy?" "It's all talk." "He's out of touch with reality, Dick." "You think if push came to shove he'd give a fuck about you?" " I know what you're trying to do." " You look like a smart guy." "I can see why your local puts their faith in you to do the right thing." "I'm just saying, if it was me..." "I got kids that depend on me, like yourself." "And to waste my votes on somebody like Dick Hoffman?" "I might as well put a bullet in my head, here." "Affordable solutions to all your fitness challenges." "Now, the Body by Jake design team has used a remarkable new technology... to attack three of the biggest problem areas below the waistline... with the Body by Jake Bun and Thigh Rocker... the three minute hip, thigh and bun machine." "So now you can quickly and easily trim and tone the hips and thighs." " What are you, up?" " Cosette, go to your basket." " What's the matter with you?" " Because I'm glad to see you." "I worry about you staying out so late." " Since when?" " You hungry?" " Want some scrambled eggs?" " Yeah, all right." "I'm thinking... maybe we should try someplace else." "I saw this thing on TV, a tour of this house in Santa Barbara... you should've seen the flowers they had, the ocean." "I was in California, I didn't like it." "I'm just saying, we're young." "We got our whole life in front of us." "Looks really nice out there." "No snow." "You're burning the butter." "Let's be honest." "What's our future here?" "You could end up in jail, or something horrible could happen." "Fucking negative shit." "Stop with that." "Somebody could have it in for you." " Who?" " I don't know." "What kind of shit is this?" "Who told you that?" "Nobody." "Fucking negative shit coming out of your mouth!" "I had that fucking bird watching me when I got made." "I'm already under a what-do-you-call-it, possibly." "So stop with that." "I worry about you, that's all." "I love you so much." "So if you love me, stir my eggs, okay?" "Excuse me." "Is Tony here?" "All right, we'll wait in the office." "What can I get you?" "Can I see a bar menu?" "I'll take a CC-and-7." "Nachos Grande and a Diet Coke." "Where's your office, in the back?" "You should play Skynyrd." "Smells in here." "Mold." "Stuff can kill you, I read." "Fuck that." "What the fuck you think cheese is?" "Mold." "Holy!" "You okay?" "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." "And I gotta rot in that courtroom." "I'll put the heat on under the gravy." "My daughter's coming over to the house for dinner, so I gotta go." "The three men were arrested in Germany last month." "Did we miss it, goddamn it?" "In other news, in the Federal courthouse in Newark, there were few surprises... in the racketeering trial of Corrado "Junior" Soprano." "The 72-year-old defendant listened as government auditors detailed... financial irregularities at Comley Trucking." "The prosecution outlined how accounting..." " What the fuck?" " What?" "What kind of likeness is that?" "If they were great artists, they'd be in a museum." "I'm fucking fodder for cartoonists now?" "You know, a little support in the courtroom would be nice... or are you still hanging crepe?" "I took care of the thing, last night." " The guy, you saw him?" " Him and 184 won't be a problem." "Good." "Hand me that weight over there." "The one in the middle." "Glad to see you're back in the swing of things." "That moping around, you gotta put it behind you, get on with your life." "That's what Janice said." "She's been wonderful through all this." "Looking after Bobby Junior and Sophia, bringing dinner over the house." " She's a pretty good cook." " Since when?" "Everybody steers clear of her food." "She made lasagna the other night, delicious." "With sweet sausage along with the beef." " I thought Karen's was good, but..." " Sweet sausage?" "In little pieces?" "A layer of basil leaves right underneath the cheese?" " That's right." " That's Carmela's lasagna." "What the fuck are you talking about?" "You always think the worst of everybody." "Fine." "Enjoy your lasagna." "Just don't come running to me." "Shit!" "Go see if he's all right." "They were here until 1:00." "I couldn't even get into my office." " This is a good thing, Adriana." " Why?" "They don't pay for nothing." "They ran up a $200 bar bill." "Overcharge some of those college students." "Ralph and them wanted to know if Tony was here." "Why, is he going to be?" "You don't know what this guy did for me." "I do." "Not getting my stripes." "Something I can't talk about." "Something that was ruining my whole life, and he made it right." "What I owe him, I would follow that man into hell." "But why do they have to come here?" "I don't understand." "This place isn't bugged." "The cops and the feds don't know about it." "Probably in time they will, until then..." "Oh, shit." "They broke my fucking chair!" "We're having Sunday dinner at Tony's, and you're coming." "I don't care if your mother's dying." "Your honor, I introduce as evidence government exhibit 27-B... which is a stipulation between the parties that, if called as a witness..." "Koren W. Jonic, supervisor of the US Post Office..." "located at 8721 Wayland Avenue in Paramus... would testify that post office box, number 206... was registered to and paid for... by one Ira E. Barad, who resides at 43 Bellingham Boulevard... apartment 4-B, Paramus, New Jersey... and was initially rented by Ira E. Barad... on September 16, 1998 with a payment of..." "I don't care what your psychic said." "If a guy don't call back within the first 48 hours..." "No, don't!" "Don't call him, Ma." "Because I don't want to hear about it." "Fuck." "Nothing, Ma, I gotta go." "I'll call you later, bye." "I can't stay." "Christopher's waiting for me." "Just checking in, seeing how you're doing." "How I'm doing?" "I can't even get my dog clipped anymore?" " Anything interesting going on?" " No." "Ralph Cifaretto was in your club." "Vito Spatafore, Gene Pontecorvo, and Patsy Parisi." "It's the law." "If they got shirts and shoes on, I gotta serve them." "Ralph Cifaretto drove down to Philadelphia last Thursday." "Had a couple of guys with him." " You know who was in the car?" " No." "You ever heard the name Cogo..." "Giovanni?" "No." "Okay, look..." "Patsy Parisi goes to White Plains all the time." "He gets these suits." " Suits?" " Yeah, suits." "Some guy came in, and Patsy went out and got him a bunch of suits." "Boss and stuff, half dozen, dozen." "From his car." "See?" "How hard was that?" "Finally, the woman finds the Easy Off." " Thanks for picking the kids up." " No prob." "So, how about you, how was your day?" "Good." "I knew it." "See, I knew you would feel better." " Did you make sure that my uncle knows?" " Yeah." "We should celebrate." "I'll make something nice for dinner." "No." "I mean, we should go out." " Vesuvio?" " Takes too long for them." "Kids like Chinese." "MSG." "I collapsed one time at the Hunan Palace, complete blackout." "I'll just open a can of soup." "That's crazy." "There must be something I can heat up." "Really, Janice, you do too much already." "What about this?" "Karen's ziti?" "I'm not ready to eat that yet." "I understand." "Hold on a minute, hon." "Sorry." "What does that mean, "basically"?" "He's laying out that kind of cash to us every week." "He'll write a check to our shell companies, we'll take the tax hit." "You got it." "How's our girl?" " Our girl?" " Yeah, she had a hot tendon." "You know, it's always something with her." "You should see the veterinarian bills." "Fucking racket." "Know what I think we should do, if you don't mind my saying?" "Switch her shoes to those titanium ones that Heshie was telling me about." "They don't weigh anything." "So they're good for a tender hoof." "Sure." "Why not?" "Here you are, baby." "You don't have to answer it." "See who it is." "You want me to answer it?" "Will you answer the fucking phone?" "Hello, I need to speak with Mr. Ralph." "It's your maid." "What?" "She's gotta go to the clinic again tomorrow?" "You talk to her, tell her to get her ass in here." "He isn't in." "Because the horse is very sick, and he put the horse in my name... and he say I won't get in no trouble." "The horse doctor won't do nothing... because Mr. Ralph don't pay the money he owes to him... and the horse may to die, and I don't know what is to do!" "All right, wait." "Hold on." "Your horse is sick and the vet won't do nothing till he's paid." "These guys, no compassion for the fucking animals whatsoever." "Maybe you better go down there." "Tell her to call 555-0157." "At the outbreak of the second great war in 1939..." "Sir Winston again answered his country's call as the First Lord of the Admiralty." "Churchill." "Remember you saw that TV movie you liked about him?" "Carmela, can you shut the door?" "Carmela, can you please shut the door?" " The horse is sick." "The lady, she..." " Who's this?" "Mr. Ralph's housekeeper." "The horse is very sick, and she said to call, because they needed..." "Slow down." "The horse is sick, the Pie-O-My." " How bad is it?" " They said she may to die." "The doctor, he won't do nothing until he gets..." "All right." "Tell him I'll take care of it." "Son of a bitch." "I am now nearing the end of my journey." "I hope I still have some services to render." "But in 1955, the advance of time... did to Churchill what dictators, armies and war planes had failed to do." "He chose to surrender." "The Queen and husband attended a formal dinner... at the venerable statesman's residence at 10 Downing Street." "Sir Winston had announced..." " Where are you going?" " I gotta go out." "It's raining." "Ralphie Cifaretto's horse is sick, and they can't find him." "Somebody's gotta go down there and pay the vet." " Down where?" " The racetrack." "It's a racehorse?" "So why do you have to go?" "You bought a racehorse?" "No, I didn't buy it." " It followed you home?" " The horse is sick." "I told him you were coming with the money." "He finally gave her something to settle her down, so I don't know." " Will she be all right?" " At least she stopped thrashing." "That's where the danger is." "The intestines get twisted, and you have to cut." "They're finished as racers then." "You the vet?" "I gave her a shot, she's quieted down." "Here." "Here's your fucking money." "You better hope she's going to be all right." "Good girl." "That's a good girl." "Trust me." "Trust me." "It's okay." "Good girl." "It's okay." "It's okay, I know." "What do you hear?" "What do you say?" "Welcome home." "Youngstown, my ass." "Look at this guy." "You look like you were in Miami." " Yeah, you look like you were in Miami." " Good to be home, skip." "What can I get you, Paulie?" "After four months inside?" "How about laid?" " It's Papillon." " Hello, Sil, how are you?" "I heard you were getting laid all the time." " Come here, you little prick." " Hello, Chrissy." "Let's have a drink." "Come on, pass them back." " Hey, over here." " There you go." "All you guys!" "Salute." "Just a second." "My song." "Welcome home." "Come on." "What the fuck?" "Why is this his song?" "Paulie, say hello to Brian Cammarata, Carm's cousin." "He's a financial guy." "How you doing, kid?" "So, just back from college?" "Let me talk to Paulie for a sec, all right?" "Nice meeting you." "Have a seat." "How you doing?" "You okay?" "Just thank God that piece of shit from Youngstown finally copped to that gun." "I could've been wearing an orange jumpsuit till I'm 90." "Well, you're home now, that's the important thing." "Here, get back on your feet." "Thanks, T." "Not that I don't appreciate it... but I could've used a boost when I was gone, too." "Fucking bills." "Then there's Ma with the private home care." "You know she almost lost her spot at Green Grove?" "An extra $5,000 it cost me just to hold her place." "You're here 30 seconds, you already got a fistful of cash... not to mention the no-show jobs I got for you." " You're right, Ton'." "I know." " Enjoy the party." "I will." "Were you having dinner at Citris last year... when a man threw a drink in Richard Cross' face?" "Yes." "Subsequent to that incident... did Mr. Cross telephone Rusty Arnold?" "Yes." "And the following day... were you informed that the man in question... had suffered a fractured skull?" "Your honor, objection." "This whole line of questioning is irrelevant." "Overruled." "You may answer, Miss Costello." "I don't think I'm supposed to, Judge." "I just made my ruling, you are required to answer." "But isn't there some law about testifying against your husband?" "Excuse me?" "Richard and I were married the night before last in Reno." "Your honor... the defense requests a conference in chambers." "We'll stand in recess for 15 minutes... while the court confers with counsel in chambers." "Bailiff, will you escort the jury out?" "Did she say anything to you about this?" "What we saw in that courtroom is a transparent attempt by Richard Cross... to subvert the intent of the marital privilege." "Hey, she's his wife." "Where are my pants?" "There's some mouthwash and shit in the back." "We'll go get breakfast." "Oh, aspetta, I'll go with you." "Any investment advice for an ambitious young man such as myself?" "Buy land, I guess." "God ain't making any more of it." "That's what Will Rogers said." "It's true, my house is worth nearly triple what I paid." "Location's the key, right?" "Otherwise you get stuck with shit." "Sometimes there's money in shit." "How do you mean?" " Nothing, I don't know." " We're just talking here, come on." "I don't know." "Some guy I went to school with, this black guy... we worked one summer for this not-for-profit housing group." "Told me about some scam his minister was involved with up in Harlem." "I read about this." "Forgazee Mortgage Loans or something, right?" " Actually, you ever hear of HUD?" " Housing development, yeah." "HUD was set up to help minorities and low-income families to be homeowners." "There are more programs for these deadbeats, I swear to Christ." "If the feds guarantee the home mortgage, the banks figure, why not?" "They'll loan the money." "You get a front man to buy houses in some crummy neighborhood." "Talking about some real shitboxes." "Maybe they're worth $100,000 apiece." "Next, you tie up with some non-profit organization who goes to HUD... and says they intend to buy these houses from your stooge." "They're gonna convert them to homes for working-class blacks, blah-blah-blah." "Thing is, though..." "All right, sit tight." "I'm gonna be a while." "I'll be over here." "Maurice and I met in college." "All the way to the University of Michigan... to make friends with a guy who lived 20 blocks away from me." "You should've seen the Jew-fro on this guy." "Out to here." "So, Maurice, Ron tells me you're from down Roseville Street." "My father was a typesetter for the Star-Ledger." "No shit?" " Sixth and Orange." " Then we were practically neighbors." "Yeah, that's why he moved." " Hello." " Carmela, it's me, Furio." "I guess I missed you this morning, I was in the bathtub." "The reason I call..." "I leave my sunglasses in some place, I don't know." "You're kidding." "Let me have a look around." "So how is everything?" "How's your dad?" "Not so good." "But I get the pictures from the housewarm finally." "Good, bring them next time." "I will." "There's a pretty one of you." "That's sweet." "I don't see the glasses, Fur'." "That's okay, I probably leave them home." "All right." "If I find them, I'll give you a call." "Okay." "I see you soon." "The summer of '67, we're both home on break." "I'm interning at the state legislature and he..." "What were you doing?" " East Newark Food Co-op." " Right." "But come July..." "The Newark riots." "What a fucking summer that was." "Later that year, Maurice and I helped organize one of the first black voting drives." "Maurice, were you around for Anthony lmperiale?" " The White Knight?" " Around?" " Who do you think he was fighting against?" " "Italian pride, keep Newark white."" "Aspiring Klansmen, some of those boys." "So this group you got now, the Urban Housing League." "What's the story there?" "Like many non-profits... we've fallen on hard times." "Republican administration, plus a proliferation... of new charities post 9l11." "Sounds like you got a lot to talk about." "I'm gonna hit the showers." "Maurice, nice meeting you." "Same here." "I took the liberty of filling Maurice in on the broad strokes." "Okay, we got a guy, Dr. Fried, he's a urologist." "We'll give him $500,000 of our money." "Have him grab up these four houses on Garside Street... for $125,000 apiece." "The old First Ward." "Once we own the houses, we got an appraiser who'll play ball." "He's gonna re-appraise them in the $300,000 range." "What you do, Maurice, is take the phony appraisals to HUD." "Tell them your urban housing thing wants to buy up these shitholes." "Convert them to low-cost housing for working families." "Once HUD guarantees the mortgage app, you take it to the bank." "They cut a check, and we work it up nice." "At which point, I assume my organization fails to make the mortgage payment." "Unforeseen construction delays and repeated vandalism... force the project into dissolution." "We all walk away from the houses." "Your cut'll be in the 10 percent of the profit range." "My office'll write a letter in strong support of your application." "Sounds about right." "Tony, good." "You're still here." " Is there a problem?" " No problem, I just wanna talk to you." "You remember that time in Atlantic City?" "You brought Irina, your old girlfriend?" "Yeah, the cystic fibrosis thing, the fundraiser." "God." "This is awkward." "Irina and I are seeing each other." "What?" "You're fucking kidding me." "I met her that night at the fundraiser." "I gave her my card." "She was having some problem with her landlord." "She called me months later, after you two broke it off..." " one thing led to another..." " All right, take it easy." "It's ancient history." "I wanted to tell you." "I feel like I owe you an explanation." "What am I, her father?" "You're both adults." "Enjoy yourself." "It's more than that." "I care for her." "Very deeply." "Roz and I are separated." "The heart wants what the heart wants, I guess." "The heart also wants what the dick wants." "Okay, who's gonna scrub my back?" "Ralph, you steal my water?" "Oh, girl" "I'd be in trouble if you left me now" "Man, I love this song." "The Chi-Lites." "The best." "Believe it or not, The Chi-Lites were signed to the same label... as Tommy James and them damn Shondells." "See, a lot of people think that, but they're wrong." "Chi-Lites were on Brunswick." "See you soon." "So, Tony, anyway..." "Look, she's a great girl." "Beautiful girl, a little needy." "Frankly, I'm glad to have her off my payroll." "Thanks for understanding." "Wish you nothing but the best, bro." "Dr. Fried, you are now the legal owner." "Eat my dust, Donald Trump." " Hey, Adriana." " Jesus Christ!" "Why don't you go haunt a house or something?" "It's been a while, figured I'd check in." "So you crawl up my ass?" "What do you want, Robyn?" "I heard Paulie Gualtieri's out of jail." " What do I know?" " How does Christopher feel about that?" "Christopher likes Paulie, they're friends." "Is that a crime now, too?" "How is Christopher anyway?" "He looked tired last time I saw him." "If you're gonna turn me into a traitor, fine... but do me a favor and stop asking about him like you give a shit how he is." "How is he doing with his drug problem?" "He doesn't have a drug problem." "How are you doing, Ade?" "Really." "I'm fine." "We're both fine." "As a matter of fact, we're thinking of finally getting married." "You have a good time today?" "Yeah, it was cool." "I love the ocean." "Feel like taking a ride?" "See that church?" "Your great grandfather helped build that almost 80 years ago." "He was a stonemason, the old man." "Came over from Avellino with $4 in his pocket." "Yeah, but I saw in a book where you could get a hotel room... for, like, 10 cents a week then." "Room service must've been, like, one or two cents a meal." "Room service?" "We're talking about history here, A.J." "Your family's history." "Newark's history." " Who gives a shit about Newark?" " I'm making a point." "This neighborhood used to be beautiful." "Hundred percent Italian." "The 1920s, most of them right off the boat." "Most Italians couldn't even find a church that wanted them." "So what did they do, did they cry?" "Did they go to the government with their hand out?" "No." "They took care of their own problems." "They said, "You don't want us here?" "Fine." "We'll build our own, a better one."" "Look at all these buildings around here." "Most of them are falling down into the ground." "But that church is still standing." "You know why?" "The bricks?" "'Cause our people give a shit, that's why." "Every Sunday, Italians from the old neighborhood drive miles... to come here to pray." "They keep this place alive." "So how come we never do?" "Buy land, A.J., 'cause God ain't making any more of it." "This is advice I'm imparting to you as your father." "Now what?" "Are you afraid?" "Right, like I haven't seen places like this before." "See those houses over there?" "I'm buying them." "Those crappy ones?" "What for?" "For an investment." "What have I been saying?" "I don't know." "Real estate." "Buy real estate." "Dad, the black dude's coming over." " Hey, what's up?" " What's up?" "Five-O?" "Yeah, I'm Starsky and this is Hutch." "Smoke, crack, or crank?" "No, thank you, we're just having a look around." " No eyeing if you ain't buying, man." " Thought this was a free country." "Unless you want something, motherfucker, get the fuck off our street." "The language on you." " You blow your father with that mouth?" " What the fuck you say to my sister?" "Relax, I don't want trouble." "I'm showing my son the old neighborhood." "This is our neighborhood now." "Guinea motherfucker." "Yeah, I can see that." "So that's a crack ho." "Keep your fucking cracker ass off my motherfucking block!" "Come on, ease up." "She's really gonna marry him?" " What is wrong with this girl?" " Come on." "Moltisanti's a great catch." "Tall, dark, and sociopathic." "From a strategic standpoint, do the nuptials help us or hurt us?" "If they do get married... brings them closer, obviously." "And by extension, gets her closer to Tony." "It could cause her to stop cooperating." "The guilt becomes overwhelming." "Remember Angel Diletto?" "I think it's more likely to have the opposite effect." "His problems really become her problems." "If they have kids, that's even more pressure." "The Dilettos never had kids." "I wouldn't count on children." "She's had some issues." "Female trouble." "Maybe Darwin was right." "Nature really does weed out the nimrods." "So what do we do, people?" "Yay or nay?" "Supportive or discouraging?" "If anyone objects to this marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace." "I say neutral or supportive." "Even if we discourage it, she'll go through with it anyway." "Agreed then." "They have our blessing." "To the happy couple." "These doctors own so much property." "You're going to buy four houses on Garside Street?" "You've certainly got your work cut out for you." "One day at a time." "Keep on keeping on." "Tony." "Come on in." "You know, it really would've been better if we met over at Denny's." "What are you worried about?" "I was in the neighborhood." "So, what's up?" "Can I get you something?" "Scotch, right?" "I sent some of my guys down there to start gutting the place." "Turned out one of the houses was a crack den." " So?" " What, "so"?" " We got to get them out of there." " Why didn't your guys roust them?" "Oh, nice." "Bunch of white guys setting off caps in the ghetto." "That won't attract any attention at all." " What do you want me to do?" " Exert some influence, make some calls." "Get the donut squad to go down there and roust the shitbags." "Tony, it's not that easy..." "Hello, Tony." "How you doing, hon?" "I'm very good." "No, I'm very well." "Thanks you very much." "She's taking a class at the community college, English as a Second Language." "You sound great." "Ronnie, I'll go make some lunch, some egg salad?" "Great." "You hungry?" "No." "Go light on the mayo." "Look, when you're dealing with squatters' rights... or anything having to do with the homeless... it can get very tricky." "Homeless?" "They're a bunch of fucking crackheads." "I understand they're gumming up the works." "But try to see the big picture." "The HUD approval came through." "In two weeks, we're gonna be looking at a huge windfall." "See, that's why you're a politician and not a businessman." "Maximum value is the big picture." "There must be $7,000 of copper pipe in there, if they haven't taken it out already." "I still don't know what you expect me to do about it." "Okay, all right." "We'll take the $7,000 out of your end?" " Well, no, but..." " Come on, Ronnie." "University of Michigan." "Fucking figure it out." "Good dinner, baby." "Christopher." " Let's get married." " Whoa!" "Where'd this come from?" "I don't know." "It's gonna be two years we're engaged." "Let's just go down to City Hall." "City Hall?" "What are we, schwugs?" "You said you wanted a big wedding anyway." "I don't care about that shit." "I just want you." "It'll be cheaper anyway, we could buy a house." "Plus, a wife... can't testify against her husband." "You can't have a club, stay out all night getting high when you have a kid." "What if we didn't have kids?" "Fuck that!" "What's the point of being married?" "I mean, what if we can't?" "If I can't?" "Would you still love me?" "Of course I'd still love you." "Why?" "There's something you should know." "A long time ago, years ago..." "I had a medical procedure." "It was before we met." "My uterus got pierced." " Both of them?" " There's only one." "That's ovaries." "So what does that mean?" "You can't get pregnant?" "My doctor said it might be hard." "A friend gave me the name of a specialist in Manhattan." "You knew you were damaged goods and you never fucking told me?" "How could you call me that?" "Jesus fucking Christ!" "How could you lie to me like that?" "I tried to tell you once." "I wanted to." "I was afraid that you wouldn't propose." "You don't get it, Adriana." "I don't have a son, the Moltisanti name ends!" "That's it!" " We could adopt." " Yeah, that's great!" "Some kid with chinky eyes called Moltisanti!" "He'd get his ass kicked every day!" "You said you'd still love me." "That doesn't mean I'll fucking marry you!" "She's a great girl, Christopher." "You don't want to lose this one." "T's right." "You could have more kids than the Kennedys... if you're married to some twat, what good is it?" "Gotta have balance in a relationship." "I know all that." "But what if the kid thing never happens?" "Come on, medicine today?" "Technology?" "You want my advice?" "And this is nothing about Ade or anybody else." "Stay single as long as you can." "Come on, what are you saying?" "No offense, but ask me, marriage and our thing don't jive." "Everybody we know is married." "Not everybody." "You love her, right?" "Yeah." "You know." "Then do the right thing." "When the shoe was on the other foot, your spleen... she stood by you, right?" "Do you want to end up like my uncle Junior?" "Or worse, like Paulie?" "Exactly." "All right, thanks." "I've got to think about it." "All right." " Ron!" " Hi, Lenore." "What a nice surprise." "We're overdue for that dinner, the four of us." " We absolutely are." " Here they come." "We're late for practice." "He's in the den." "Okay, thanks." "The fact is, Mo, these people are criminals." "Drug addicts and dealers who've been occupying that house illegally." "What about the police?" "Get the seller, the urologist, to make the call." "They're crack addicts." "They'll be back there living in two hours." "The deal was for me to effectuate the purchase of these houses, period." "I realize that." "Nobody mentioned anything about violence." "We renounced it, remember?" "Then Eldridge went into the codpiece business." "I'm in a bind here." "What do you expect me to do?" " Get some of your people to handle it." " What people?" "Well, we can't send whites in there." "People of color." "You run a youth gang outreach program, don't you?" " I'm on the board, Ron." " Fine, I understand." "Take the $7,000 this is costing out of your end then." "Come on." "You know what I pay in child support to my first wife." "The chances I'm taking with this." "I'm putting it all on the line if I get caught." "Get some kids, gangbangers, whatever, you throw them some money." "When you think about it from a policing standpoint... it's one group of recidivists beating on another." "Stop trying to justify it." "It's about the $7,000." "Let me tell you something else." "Guys like Tony, you don't fool around with these people." "My son..." "I don't know what he understands." "I'm trying to tell him about the immigrants." "He's talking about room service." "We need to talk about your recent behavior in here." " Your angry tirade?" " You want to talk about that now?" "That was weeks ago." "It was my judgment that at the time you were in crisis about Gloria's suicide." "Didn't you get the flowers I sent?" "Your behavior was unacceptable, Anthony." "You cannot have these outbursts and expect to redeem yourself... with an FTD bouquet." "I'm sorry, all right?" "It's good that you're sorry, but no, it's not all right." "We've been down this road before." "I know." "The fact that you're angry is fine." "And it's okay to talk about your anger." "But when it manifests itself in physicality... it becomes unacceptable." "I never laid a finger on you." "You loomed." " You threw my tissue holder." " Then I picked it up." "I was very upset." " You lied to me." " I did not lie to you." "You withheld information about a very sensitive subject." "All right, look." "I know what I did was wrong." "Okay?" "And you may not believe this... but I did exercise impulse control, and I have been controlling my anger." "This thing with my son, I went to show him the old neighborhood... and we got accosted by these crackheads." "One of them had a gun." "The other one threw a bottle at my car." "Now it may not sound like much, but I let it go." "I drove away." "Well, in the future, I'll ask that you extend to me... the same courtesy you would a crack addict." "All right, as long as we're being truthful here, you know, opening up?" "I've been holding a grudge against you for recommending that Wendi Kobler... that half-assed adolescent shrink." "That stupid bitch almost sent my daughter to Barcelona." "You're right, it's no excuse." "I knew I hit something last night when I turned off the road." "Up and at them, Lieutenant." "How was your ride?" "Busted brake line." " Yeah, what's it look like?" " Like a busted brake line, man." "Good morning, honey." " Can you fix it, B.A.?" " Gonna try." "Thanks, Hannibal." "I need those." "What do you need my tools for?" "Going to get my hands on the tape that'll prove Calvin Cutter's a murderer." "I won't leave the county without proof." "The tape won't do us good if we can't get out of the county with it." "Listen, I've been doing some thinking... the kid thing and all." "I'm not happy that you lied to me." "But I think I want to try and deal with it." "Really?" "I love you, Adriana." "I want you in my life." "I love you, too, Christopher." "Are you high?" "You gotta start with that now?" " I just want to be sure it's real." " It is real." "I love you." "When can we get married?" "I was thinking maybe our anniversary, we could go to Vegas." "Vegas?" "Want to get married by some Elvis impersonator?" " We would save money at least." " No, it's a sacrament, Ade." "Why don't we have it here?" "All your friends could come." "We'll have it in the great room, or in the yard even, if it's nice out." "We can have Artie cater it." "I think Christopher will ask Tony to be his best man." "I am sure he will be honored." " Does your mother know?" " You're the first person I've told." "We'll decorate the whole house with mums." "Believe me, you will not save any money in Vegas." "My cousin Jackie and her husband Tommy, $60,000 at blackjack." " I'm getting married!" " I know!" "Give me some of that." "Remember, just shoot the ceiling and shit." "No 187 s." "Get the fuck out my house, motherfuckers!" "Get out and stay out!" "Hey, mister." "I'll kill you if you come around here, bitch." "Don't come back here no more." "Get the fuck out before we kill your asses!" "Fucker's got a.9 mm!" "All right." "Don't come around here no more." "That's my brother." "Get out of here, you filthy bitch!" "Go!" "I told you young people that crack is some bad shit." "Dr. Fried, $1,300,000." "Mr. Tiffen, you take possession as of today." "Good luck now, and congratulations." "Thank you, Doctor." "For you." " What's this?" " It's a music box." "Holy shit." "A Patek?" "Yeah, me and Ralph got lucky on a new real estate investment." "You actually did it?" " I was just speculating." "I never..." " Relax." " Your name will never come up." " It's not that, it's just..." "The American taxpayers..." "They pay for airport security, look how well that's going." "Give me a fucking break." "This is like a $15,000 watch, Tony." "I can't take this." "It's just a little thank you, that's all." "A.J., what are you doing down there?" "It's me, Carm!" "Down here with Bri'." " I'm just borrowing some tools." " All right." "Thank you for this, really." "I gotta get dressed." " Furio, hi, good morning." " Good morning." "Come in." "What are you doing out in the cold?" "Today I'll wait in the car, I think." "Why?" "Don't you want some coffee?" "The motor is acting funny." "I need to keep my foot on the gas pedal." "Well, okay." "I was looking forward to seeing those pictures." "I'll let Tony know you're here." "Furio's here." "You doing some work on the house?" "Yeah, you know." "Sinking some anchors for a wall mirror." "Thank you." "How's the mousse?" "Fucking great." "I tell you... the shit you miss when you're inside?" "There was a week where I would've killed for some Good  Plentys." "Should've told me." "I would've sent you some." "I know you would've." "See, that's the thing though." "What I need's not your problem." " What do you mean?" " Fucking Tony." "Four months I'm up there, like the Man in the Iron Mask." "Not one visit." "Not even a fucking phone call." " The guy didn't reach out at all?" " When do I ever complain?" "Paulie, look, the guy's the boss." "You visit a guy in the can these days..." "You know the feds." "You give someone the time of day, it's a criminal conspiracy." "So he can't phone?" "You fucking did." "Even before I left, he was treating me like the ugly girl at the dance." "I'm sucking wind, and he's rolling in it with that fucking Christ killer." "Hesh?" "Fucking Zellman, fucking real estate scam." "The Frelinghuysen Avenue thing." "We had some words." " Tony made it right." " It's a different one now." "I'm not sure what it is." "All I know is fucking Ralphie's going around bragging about how much they're making." "Listen, John, I know we talk sometimes." "I tell you my problems, you tell me yours." "I have the highest regards for Carmine." "He thinks the world of you, also." "Even still, this shit don't leave the table, right?" "I'm hurt that you even have to ask." "As far as we know, those transformers are perfectly safe... but I'll propose an ad-hoc study." " Thank you, assemblyman." " Okay, bye-bye." "Mr. Olmstead called regarding lunch, and you've got the zoning hearing at 4:00." "I'll call him later, I'm going to make a stop." "I'll see you back at the office and make sure that she's on the list for the fundraiser." " Does this go your cousins?" " No, Verrazano Salvage, ask for Gene." "Don't forget the fireplace mantles and the wall sconces." "Downtown, the yuppies pay top dollar." "We're on it, Ton', don't worry." "Assemblyman." "What brings you to beautiful downtown Newark?" "Meeting with one of my constituents." " You going to be at the Bing tomorrow?" " I don't know yet." "Maybe I'll see you over there then." "Maybe you will." "Is it going to be a nice house here now?" "I'm taking it." "I'll put it on my card, okay?" "It's with my clothes." "I'll get the seamstress." "I can't believe you're finally doing this." "So sudden, too." "The best part is going to be seeing how much people give us." "Lisa told me at her and Ricky's wedding, Bobby Canzoneri didn't cover his plate." "Shut up." "$40 in an envelope, not even a card." "I'll tell you, though, the main thing about getting married?" "I can never be called to testify." "What do you mean?" " A wife can't testify against her husband?" " Right." "Actually, though, I don't think that's actually true." "What do you mean?" "They did a whole Murder, She Wrote about that." "This butler thought his wife couldn't testify against her husband... but it turns out, legally she actually could." "To claim marital privilege, three conditions must be met." "The communication must be made during the course of the marriage." "Anything said before you were married is fair game." "Two, the communication must involve only the spouses." "The presence of a third party destroys the privilege." "Three, communication can't be made in furtherance of a crime." "Oh, my God, it's a simple question." "Can they make me testify or not?" "The short answer?" "Probably." "In organized crime, a RICO, the feds will spend a fortune putting on their case." "Believe me, if they want you to testify, they're going to find a way." "Here you go, 10 percent apiece." "Technically, it's a little less... but our friend rounded you up to an even $60,000." "There's plenty more where that came from." "A lot of poor families need affordable housing in Newark." "Ronnie, listen..." "I didn't want to say this." " No hard feelings?" " Of course not." " You sure you're all right?" " I'm fine." "You're just being..." " You're being awfully quiet." " I don't know, tired." " You ever feel bad about any of this?" " What do you mean?" "When I think about where we started out..." "I used to think what I did made a difference." "The anti-drug programs, the voter drives." "But over the years... it's like shoveling shit against the tide, you know that." "I guess." "You cut corners, but you help out." "Do the best you can." "If it ain't us, it's going to be somebody else." "Really, I mean..." "What are we supposed to be, the only honest men?" "We were going to lead a revolution." "Revolution." "The revolution got sold, Ronnie." "You heard the Beatles for HR Block?" "Sometimes I feel like I should be punished." "Come on, let's get something to eat." "Here's something I never thought I'd say:" "To the federal government." "Depends on which department." "A cappuccino maker, this is great." "Is that the Capresso?" "You'll love that, Ade." "Cappuccino now." "He used to drink Bosco." "I got it at Fortunoff's if you want to exchange it." "No scissors, bad luck!" "That's from me." "I can't count how many cheese melts I've made for Silvio in that thing." "Here, open this one, Ade." "Oh, girl" "I'd be in trouble if you left me now" "'Cause I don't know where to look for love" "Oh, girl" "You got anything to drink?" "What's going on?" "What's up?" "Look, why don't you just calm down and..." "I'm perfectly calm." "We can talk about whatever's bothering you." "Tony, this is crazy." "Come on, fuck!" "Tony, no!" "All the girls in New Jersey, you had to fuck this one?" "Go ahead, cry like a bitch." "Ronnie."