The Sopranos (TV Series)

To Save Us All from Satan's Power (2001)

James Gandolfini: Tony Soprano

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• Tony Soprano : I was feeling good, all of a sudden I'm back to square one

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What'd you mean?

  Tony Soprano : I had another one of those panic attacks this morning, but not the whole thing. It was right there under the surface, that feeling like I got Ginger ale in my brain

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Are you taking your medication?

  Tony Soprano : Not everyday

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Is that what the prescription says?

  Tony Soprano : [Implying his not following the prescription instructions]  another thing to feel bad about

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Well, can you tell me what led up to this?

  Tony Soprano : [Takes his notepad out of his back pocket and tosses it on her coffee table]  you want my log? That I'm supposed to write everything down for you? Look, it's the shit I've got to do for Christmas

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : All this pressure we put on ourselves this time of the year, they call it "stress-mas"

  Tony Soprano : That's cute, I was looking forward to Christmas this year, no shit but here I go right back into the "rabbit hole"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : OK let's do the drill, the panic attack, what preceded it?

  Tony Soprano : Well, yesterday I went down to the shore to get my boat winterized

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What happened?

  Tony Soprano : I started thinking about this "thing" that happened years ago and I haven't thought about it since it happened

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Tell me about it

  Tony Soprano : I can't

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I see, we're at one of our favorite "junk-shers"

  Tony Soprano : Without going into specifics I can tell you he was a friend of mine and I found out he was working for the federal government

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [Remains silent] 

  Tony Soprano : Enough said?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I see

  Tony Soprano : Did I ruin your Christmas?

• Christopher Moltisanti : Santa, we still haven't got one.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You wanna do it?

  Christopher Moltisanti : Me, what do I know about it? I don't have kids.

  Silvio Dante : You don't have to, Santa doesn't have any kids.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah, that's strange, that Mr. And Mrs. Claus didn't have kids of their own.

  Silvio Dante : Probably why they got into it in the first place.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I used to think the elves were their kids.

  Silvio Dante : They were running a sweatshop over there.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : There was something on TV, the original elves were ugly, traveled with Santa to throw bad kids a beatin', and he gave the good ones toys.

  Tony Soprano : The fuckin' Grinch. Maybe that's where they got the idea.

  Silvio Dante : And fuckin' Dr. Seuss ripped it off.

• Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [while on the Asbury Park boardwalk]  we gonna go see your boat?

  Tony Soprano : [referring to Big Pussy Bonpensiero]  no, I'm just... thinking about our former "friend"

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : who?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [surprised, after Tony gestures to the ocean]  him? Not me: never

  Tony Soprano : me and Jackie, met him down in 95, when he got back from Boca

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : oh, yeah, that crazy shit with your uncle. Junior hijacked Jackie's truck, what about it?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [referring to Pussy becoming an FBI informant]  we should've seen it then: that's all

  Tony Soprano : don't waste another second on that rat fuck. I'd kill him again if I could. Tommy Angeletti is doing a rebar at the Esplanade

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : yeah?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : his into me for a hundred large on college basketball. Now Ralphie is holding up the contract for more money: his got the site shutdown on a strike, Angeletti can't work

  Tony Soprano : [sternly]  your fuckin book against millions that are gonna roll in from the Esplanade

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I figured you'd take a side but Ralphie shouldn't come across a couple no-show and electrician jobs? I shouldn't get something out of this Esplanade?

  Tony Soprano : [after thinking it over]  alright, I'll talk to him

• Tony Soprano : [talking privately]  I'm looking for this Russian: his friends with Svetlana Kirilenko, you know Irina's cousin?

  Slava Malevsky : The one-legged woman, I know who she is

  Tony Soprano : I don't want her involved. All I know about this guy is that he drives a cab and he wasn't very nice to someone important to me

  Slava Malevsky : Don't think another thing about this. I'll find him and I'll kick the shit out of him

  Tony Soprano : No, I'm gonna do this: this motherfucker is mine

• Jackie Aprile Jr. : [during Christmas morning]  can I talk to you?

  Jackie Aprile Jr. : [when Tony doesn't reply]  I flunked out of Rutgers. I'm sorry, I know I fucked up, I got distracted this year by things. Ralph said I was probably wasting my time if I didn't have the aptitude?

  Tony Soprano : Ralph?

  Jackie Aprile Jr. : you know, he didn't go to school and look at the money he was making when he was my age and the "piece", my car got broken into couple times at the frat house so Ralph gave it to me: it was fuckin stupid, I know it but I'm gonna be alright now. I'm going to design men's suits, Meadow thinks I should go to the Fashion Institute. I really think I could be good if I applied myself

  Tony Soprano : [sternly]  you bullshit me, and you betray my daughter

  Jackie Aprile Jr. : I'm sorry

  Tony Soprano : go back inside, you know I'm gonna be frank with you on this, I haven't decided what to do with you yet

• Carmela Soprano : [while in their bedroom early in the morning, referring to the Christmas gifts they bought]  Oh good, you're up. I just got the digital video for Meadow: three down, three to go. Plus, the scooter is ready but your gonna have to pick it up

  Tony Soprano : It's on my list

  Carmela Soprano : You're not gonna like this next bit of news either: Janice is insisting on cooking Christmas dinner this year

  Tony Soprano : Christmas eve or Christmas day?

  Carmela Soprano : I'm cooking Christmas eve. You want to turn her loose on shellfish? She's determined to cook goose on Christmas day

  Tony Soprano : Why?

  Carmela Soprano : Well, her impulses are right: she's over here all the time, she volunteered me to make the gravy and the lasagna, so with everything else going on I have to do today, I have to bring half my kitchen over there and she needs you because the fuse box is on the fritz again

  Tony Soprano : Oh, fuck. Come on, I'm busy

  Carmela Soprano : So what? And I'm not?

• Silvio Dante : [talking in Tony's basement, referring to Big Pussy Bonpensiero possibly wearing a wire underneath the Santa outfit]  Ever since we found that suit, I've been dreaming about that fat rat bastard

  Tony Soprano : What about it?

  Silvio Dante : You did the right thing

  Tony Soprano : You're starting to worry me, you got a problem?

  Silvio Dante : 95, I can't believe I didn't see it. You think it went down in Boca though? I mean he was bringing in shit through there?

  Tony Soprano : No, it wasn't Boca, they didn't "flip" him in Boca. He was down there for twenty fours, to set up the sit down with my uncle and I know for a fact he was with my uncle the whole time

• Tony Soprano : My wife had her doubts about Jackie Jr. and all along, I kept defending the two-faced prick

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Do you feel responsible for their relationship?

  Tony Soprano : [referring to her previous boyfriend Noah Tannenbaum]  Well, Meadow thinks she'd still be going out with the "Oreo cookie" if it wasn't for me

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Well, that's true, isn't it?

  Tony Soprano : Look, the question is: what am I gonna do about Jackie? Should I tell my wife? Meadow... it'd break heart if she knew

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [before Tony abruptly gets up to leave]  On another subject, I was thinking what we were talking about the last time you were here: you know your friend who was working for the federal government? Granted, I get most of my information from the movies and Bill Kurtis, but I was thinking...

• Carmela Soprano : [sarcastically, irritated]  I wish I could get up at 11:30 every morning after being out all-night God knows where

  Tony Soprano : [after she forcefully searches through them to intentionally annoy him with the banging sound]  Stop with the pots and pans

  Carmela Soprano : Where were you last night?

  Tony Soprano : Nowhere, I wasn't anywhere, I was the monogamy "poster boy", I swear to God

  Carmela Soprano : Oh, please

  Tony Soprano : [referring to Irina]  You know I break up with the so-called Russian whore, I'm "towing the line" and this is the thanks I get

  Carmela Soprano : What about Charmaine?

  Tony Soprano : [confused]  Charmaine?

  Carmela Soprano : Uh huh, I know all about you

  Tony Soprano : What? I didn't do anything

  Carmela Soprano : Yeah, you did in high school

  Tony Soprano : High school?

  Carmela Soprano : Don't try to deny it

  Tony Soprano : Oh ok, high school

  Carmela Soprano : Her husband dumps her and she never looked so good? You gotta ask yourself why?

  Tony Soprano : I didn't do nothing

  Tony Soprano : [raises his voice]  I didn't do nothing

  Carmela Soprano : It's too late. Alright? I don't believe anything you say