The Sopranos (TV Series)

No Show (2002)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

Quotes 

• Tony Soprano : [Referring to his daughter Meadow]  the kid was suppose to get a job this summer: an internship, then it wasn't right for what she was studying, ok that's one down then she was going to be a hostess at Artie Bucco's restaurant. I got her that and there was a problem that she couldn't work Tuesdays and Thursdays because of her babysitting commitments and Artie didn't try to understand so she left. Then the babysitting family disappeared to Nantucket, then something else fell through

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : So, she's regressing

  Tony Soprano : She keeps it up she'll be back "in the womb"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Over the course of a child's life there's a constant moving away and coming back, security versus freedom but what I find interesting and if I'm hear you right, is that at the age of nineteen she actually wants to stay close to home

  Tony Soprano : Well, see that's what I was going to say, she did have someone close: die

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Jackie

  Tony Soprano : But she brings that up whenever you ask her to clean up or whatever, she's "traumatized"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : He was shot to death

  Tony Soprano : Yeah it's tragic that kid

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It was some kind of drug deal you said?

  Tony Soprano : Yeah exactly all the "earmarks", no its got to be tough but they've broken up and he wasn't very nice to her

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Maybe it's a manipulation in part

  Tony Soprano : She's got a hard on about Columbia: "it's so competitive"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : But it doesn't mean her pain over Jackie's death isn't real. Has she said to you or Carmella she's depressed?

  Tony Soprano : Oh, come on with that shit, she's going to be alright

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Maybe she should be on medication? And her anger is focused on Carmella? Not on you?

  Tony Soprano : I catch some shit, we were always close even in that "fifteen year old" period where she can hardly stomach Carmella

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Well, you are the dad. The template for all future lovers

  Tony Soprano : She loves me, I know that, since she was a tiny baby

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It might be helpful if she saw someone. Dr. Wendi Kobler, she's adolescent psychologist and an educational consultant

  Tony Soprano : What'd you mean? Talk about private family stuff like I do here with you?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Yes

  Tony Soprano : Like you said she's going back to school, be with her college pals, back to the "grindstone", that's all good shit