Full Leather Jacket (5 Mar. 2000)

Rebellion by some of the lower soldiers ends in bloodshed, while Carmela starts intimidating her neighbors to help Meadow's chances at Georgetown.

Director:

Allen Coulter

Writers:

David Chase (creator), Robin Green,

Stars:

James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
James Gandolfini	...	Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco	...	Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco	...	Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli	...	Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese	...	Junior Soprano
Steven Van Zandt	...	Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico	...	Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri
Robert Iler	...	A.J. Soprano
Jamie-Lynn Sigler	...	Meadow Soprano
Drea de Matteo	...	Adriana La Cerva
Lillo Brancato	...	Matt Bevilaqua (as Lillo Brancato Jr.)
David Proval	...	Richie Aprile
Aida Turturro	...	Janice Soprano
Nancy Marchand	...	Livia Soprano (credit only)
Federico Castelluccio	...	Furio Giunta

Storyline

Meadow is getting anxious about college admission and wants to go to Berkely but Carmella considers taking steps to ensure that won't happen. She asks for her neighbor Jeannie Cusamano's help in getting her sister Joan, went to Georgetown, for a letter of recommendation. When Joan refuses, Carmella pays her a personal visit. Paulie and Silvio visit Richie Aprile to suggest he help out Beansie by building a ramp for his wheelchair. Christopher is having problems with Adriana who has moved out. He asks her to marry him and gives her a gigantic engagement ring. Christopher has two new guys working for him, Matthew and Sean, but they decide they need to get ahead and try to impress Richie. Richie gives Tony a prized leather jacket that he had taken off a hood many years before, but then sees that has given it away.

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Plot Keywords:

gangster

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2000 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Silvercup Studios - 4222 22nd Street, Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Brad Grey Television, Chase Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Soprano residence address (visible on Meadow's Berkeley acceptance letter): 633 Stag Trail Road, North Caldwell, NJ 07006.

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Goofs

When Christopher M. is shot and on the ground, the camera pans up the spent shells on the ground and up his body. All the spent shells that you can see are crimped on the end, they are blanks.

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Quotes

[about Christopher]
Richie Aprile: The attitude on that camel-nose fuck. He ever lays his hand on my niece again I'm gonna tear him apart piece by piece.
Matthew Bevilaqua: Camel nose! You can't make that shit up.
Richie Aprile: What the fuck are you talking about? I just did. Did you ever notice he's the only motherfucker who can smoke a cigarette in the rain with his hands tied behind his back? That nose is like a natural canopy.

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Connections

References Island of Lost Souls (1932)

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Soundtracks

"Baker Street"
(uncredited)
Composed and Performed by Gerry Rafferty

User Reviews

Carmela

Read the summary for the full plot. What I want to talk about is Carmela, who really comes into her own here. Meadow is applying to colleges. Jeannie Cusamano has some connection to an Ivy league school. Carmela decides a little help from Jeannie couldn't hurt. She asks Jeannie nicely enough at first to help her out regarding Meadow. Jeannie ain't all that excited about the idea. Carmela then becomes distinctly menacing, enough to shake Jeannie to her roots and to rush to do what Carmela demands of her. This is an interesting turn of events, coming from a woman who deplores what her husband does for a living. It shows her to be as cunning and merciless as he, at least when she wants something. This little scenario will all come to a head in another episode or two, but here is the first episode where we see the hypocrisy and downright evil of Carmela, using her husband's fearsome reputation to shake down her neighbor. A tour de force performance by Edie Falco.