Jamie-Lynn Sigler credited as playing...
Meadow Soprano
- Tony Soprano: What'd I mean? What'd you mean? All these innuendos. You referring to me that I didn't do everything I could to keep that kid from fuckin himself up? And yeah knowing him and his family that I didn't try to be a better dad than his own dad? God rest his soul. That I didn't try to protect Jackie Jr.? That I didn't smack him around because I was so frustrated? Is that what you're trying to tell me?
- Meadow Soprano: I'm through telling people you help with environmental clean up
- Tony Soprano: That's not what I asked you
- Meadow Soprano: Like you can talk honestly for three fucking seconds
- Tony Soprano: You try me!
- Meadow Soprano: I made my plans and I'm going to Europe and getting the fuck out of here
- Carmela Soprano: If you stop now, it'll be that much harder to get back on track
- Tony Soprano: Your mother's right
- Carmela Soprano: just out of curiosity, what're you planning on using for money?
- Meadow Soprano: Cheap tickets' is running a sale, I can cash in the bonds nana gave me: most likely I'll be working
- Tony Soprano: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, on some student film
- Meadow Soprano: It's not a student film, it's a feature on DV-CAM: he got honorable mention at the Winnipeg Film Festival last year for his short
- Tony Soprano: Forget money, what about security? You think traipsing around Europe is the smart move these days?
- Meadow Soprano: Like Europe is any less safe than here? Look, you don't seem to get it. I keep having images of Jackie April lying in a pool of his own blood in some street somewhere
- Carmela Soprano: So, French discos drive away sad thoughts?
- Meadow Soprano: You've never heard of the restorative nature of travel? Read Henry James. Why does every college have junior year abroad if there isn't a need for it?
- Carmela Soprano: Then why don't you wait for junior year? It's eight months
- Meadow Soprano: Because I need it now
- Tony Soprano: [irritated] You want to go to Europe? Go! Clear your head, do whatever the hell they do over there
- Meadow Soprano: Thank you, I will
- Carmela Soprano: [to Tony] Don't you think she should talk to someone first? A counselor maybe?
- Tony Soprano: Maybe the college of hard knocks is what she needs? Let's see how she likes it when some gypsy lifts her wallet, let her find out you can't work over there without a permit like the French hang onto like their balls
- Carmela Soprano: did you go see Dr. Klober?
- Meadow Soprano: [while lying in bed] yeah
- Carmela Soprano: well, what did you talk about?
- Meadow Soprano: she says I don't have to tell you or dad: it's "confidential"
- Carmela Soprano: this is what we pay two hundred dollars for
- Meadow Soprano: it was your idea, I only saw her out of a gesture of "good will"
- Meadow Soprano: [after Carmela calls Tony into Meadow's room] look, I don't know what you're so upset about: it's my right to go to Europe, that's what she said
- Carmela Soprano: I don't care what she said: it's totally irresponsible
- Tony Soprano: [after entering Meadow's room] what?
- Carmela Soprano: the therapist told her it is her "right" to go to Europe
- Tony Soprano: whoa, whoa, she actually thinks this a good idea?
- Meadow Soprano: she says it's no big deal, I can pick up my education wherever, whenever
- Carmela Soprano: oh, really?
- Meadow Soprano: Wendy said she can get me into a school in Barcelona if I decided to stay
- Tony Soprano: who's "Wendy"?
- Meadow Soprano: Dr. Wendy Klober?
- Carmela Soprano: Barcelona?
- Tony Soprano: I could take Melfi's head and crush it like a fuckin walnut
- Carmela Soprano: I feel "battered"
- Meadow Soprano: [getting out of bed] I've got to get to the salon
- Carmela Soprano: did you tell "Wendy" you didn't work all summer?
- Meadow Soprano: [sarcastically] wait, your right, I forgot to mention the "pivotal role" of the work ethic in this family
- Carmela Soprano: you can lose that "smart mouth" right now
- Meadow Soprano: or what? What is this Afghanistan? I'm over eighteen now, I'm a grown woman I can go wherever I want and do what I want
- Carmela Soprano: [raises her voice] alright, Jesus, God, we know that, is that your only point here? Because "just" getting what you want is for babies, not adults
- Meadow Soprano: it may interest you to know she thinks I probably should be on Prozac
- Carmela Soprano: [surprised] she does?
- Tony Soprano: she said that?
- Meadow Soprano: Jackie was murdered, I know you think it's noting that screwing my head off at the Columbia army game wouldn't cure
- Carmela Soprano: that is so unfair
- Tony Soprano: alright, look, I've been thinking about this: now you're a smart girl, the "right move" is for you to wait, just until next year maybe?
- Meadow Soprano: you know what I don't understand, dad? You were all in favor of me going
- Tony Soprano: your mother doesn't want it
- Meadow Soprano: [sarcastically] wow, listen to "Mr. mob boss"
- Tony Soprano: what'd you call me?
- Meadow Soprano: all this fucking "pussy footing" around for years now? Why don't we just get it out there?
- Carmela Soprano: want some lunch? I was just about to sit down to a tuna san
- Meadow Soprano: onions? In the morning?
- Carmela Soprano: actually, it's two o'clock
- Meadow Soprano: I'm going out by the pool
- Meadow Soprano: [after seeing her irritated] what mom?
- Carmela Soprano: you said you were gonna get up at eight thirty to be at TCBY Yogurt when the manager got there
- Meadow Soprano: it's like five days before school starts: what's the use of getting a job now?
- Carmela Soprano: oh, I don't know, a few textbooks you could buy? A pair of socks? Anything that we don't have to supply?
- Meadow Soprano: look, this whole "thing" about me working between now and the start of classes is all about you being pissed because I didn't intern at the Papermill Playhouse this summer
- Carmela Soprano: we bought you a car so you could drive back and forth to your internship, you don't feel bad you didn't live up to your end of the deal?
- Meadow Soprano: Jesus, we've been through this how many times? There was no stage craft credit whatsoever on what they had me doing at the Playhouse. Xeroxing does not count towards a drama minor internship
- Carmela Soprano: did you call the drama department? Check that out?
- Meadow Soprano: no, I didn't so can we shitcan the courtroom theatrics?
- Carmela Soprano: watch your mouth
- Meadow Soprano: like I haven't been through enough this year? Twelve credits: two semesters in a row and I'm not entitled to a summer?
- Carmela Soprano: you hardly broke a C your entire second semester
- Meadow Soprano: [sarcastically] maybe you forgot my ex-boyfriend died?
- Carmela Soprano: your grades started going down the tubes while you were still going out with Jackie Jr.
- Meadow Soprano: great, Jesus, did you ever lose a friend at my age? Did you ever have to grieve when you were nineteen?
- Carmela Soprano: honey, you should've been working this summer, if only to feel good about yourself: get your mind off Jackie instead of laying out by that pool
- Meadow Soprano: I "read" out by that pool, probably half "The Canon?"
- Carmela Soprano: [referring to name of the book by Natalie Angier] "The Canon"? Ok, what is that now?
- Meadow Soprano: the great books? Western literature? Dead White Males? Who even in their reductionism have quite interesting things to say about death and loss. Maybe more interesting things than what you have to say?
- Carmela Soprano: is Mary Higgins Clark apart of that group? Because that's what I saw you reading every time I passed by the pool. Can you at least go online and register for classes?
- Meadow Soprano: I will
- Carmela Soprano: I thought you had final registration today?
- Meadow Soprano: [sighs] "technically" drop and add goes on for the next three weeks
- Carmela Soprano: still, shouldn't you register for the classes you know you want so you don't lose them?
- Meadow Soprano: look, I've decided to take a year off
- Carmela Soprano: what? And do what? Hang around the house?
- Meadow Soprano: actually, I'm going to Europe with Misty
- Carmela Soprano: what are you talking about?
- Meadow Soprano: look, I'm just not ready. If I go back now, I'll have to start meeting with advisors, who will want me to temporarily declare a major. I'll have that to deal with and obviously, you don't want me around here
- Carmela Soprano: that is not what I said at all. You think I don't want you here?