- A.J. Soprano: [In the hospital] what's up?
- Christopher Moltisanti: You were at South Mountain Arena yesterday trying to buy a gun from that asshole that works in the snack stand?
- A.J. Soprano: Who told you that?
- Christopher Moltisanti: We know how you feel but you can't do this.
- A.J. Soprano: I can't believe you know this, who told you this?
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: If my father was laying in there shot I'd be thinking the same thing.
- Christopher Moltisanti: But you can't go this.
- A.J. Soprano: Yeah, well why the fuck not?
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: Listen to me, I'm your uncle Junior's in federal lock up, no one's getting to him in there.
- A.J. Soprano: It's difficult but not impossible.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Trust me your dad does not want you to get involved
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: You've got to channel that rage elsewhere, like golden gloves
- Christopher Moltisanti: Dumb bells or some shit, fuck your girlfriend more
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [Talking to Tony while Tony's in a coma] I've got to wear a jock, the doctor says it will help keep my testes elevated, of course it'd be a lot worse. They gave me an ultrasound, there's no rupture. The good news is, I did it when I made a big score in business and I saw a little action.
- Carmela Soprano: I swear to god, I'm gonna fucking kill you!
- A.J. Soprano: What the fuck?
- Carmela Soprano: You made the fool of yourself and our family on national fucking television!
- A.J. Soprano: I didn't say that shit! They totally misquoted me!
- Meadow Soprano: Holy shit.
- Carmela Soprano: Well, of course they did. That's what they do! Which is why I and everybody else told you: don't talk to the press!
- A.J. Soprano: You're the one who look like a total asshole, dragging me around like I was five years old!
- Carmela Soprano: You're cross to bear, that's all you are, to your father, to me, to everybody!
- A.J. Soprano: Fuck this! All right? Fuck it all!
- [leaving his room]
- Hugh DeAngelis: [to Carmela] Jesus, Mel! The hell's wrong with you?
- Carmela Soprano: What's wrong with me? What's wrong with ME?
- [she leaves]
- Christopher Moltisanti: J.T., I want to introduce you to Carmine Lupertazzi: my co-executive producer on the project.
- Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.: [To J.T] I heard the tidbits of what Chrissy's got in mind, the genre, and so forth. I've got to warn you, I'm very hands on and I learned that the hard way.
- Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.: [to everyone in the room] I want to welcome all of you to the first meeting of possible investors on this project. Some of you know I've had nine pictures under my sub species: four in The South Beach Strumpet series alone, each with thirty thousand plus DVDs in print. That being said I usually find it helpful at this stage to include to my prospective partners and get your inputs, or "notes" as we call them.
- Christopher Moltisanti: J.T., you're on.
- J.T. Dolan: Well, we've been working on a new kind of slasher film, it takes in the world of... you know...
- Christopher Moltisanti: [Interrupts him] It"s about a wise guy with a big mouth, and bigger dreams.
- J.T. Dolan: Anyway, they call him "The Butcher".
- Silvio Dante: No, they don't.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Why the fuck not?
- Silvio Dante: Need I remind you of a certain "Butcher" out of AC?
- Christopher Moltisanti: Right, not "butcher", go on J.T.
- J.T. Dolan: Right, so his kind of outshining his boss so the guy has him clipped, but he's still alive when they cut him up.
- Vito Spatafore: [Jokingly before everyone laughs] Oh, he's going to feel that the next day.
- J.T. Dolan: Right, so at the dump his body reassembles itself all except for a hand that got crushed. So he ties a cleaver onto the stump and he goes out to get revenge on everyone especially the boss which is a pretty solid role. Right now its call "Pork Store Killer", but I'm thinking just "Cleaver".
- Larry Boy Barese: I'm confused, you said he's dead.
- Vito Spatafore: How is he "evening" up on everybody? He's a ghost?
- Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.: [Clarifying the main character in the movie to everyone] as I understood it: a zombie of sorts. Great title by the way.
- Patsy Parisi: But if they jointed him, he's not going to end up all in the same dump.
- Silvio Dante: And how is that a slasher film?
- Christopher Moltisanti: What're you talking about?
- Silvio Dante: A slasher: Couple kids naked in the lake, a certified manic on the loose, not a ghost.
- J.T. Dolan: Actually the manic is almost always a supernatural force: Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers from Halloween...
- Silvio Dante: Get the fuck out...
- Carmine Lupertazzi Jr.: Easy Sil, he's making a point.
- Silvio Dante: Michael Myers is an escape mental patient. Jason and Freddy, different kind of movie.
- Christopher Moltisanti: That's the kind we're doing here. Saw, The Ring, they made millions, and that's not even including The Godfather angle which we got here.
- Benny Fazio: What if they disposed him at stops that happened to be along the same route? Then he would all end up all in the same dump.
- Vito Spatafore: But he's a ghost? I don't know.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Ghostbusters, another fuckin' money machine!
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: [talking privately with Sil and Vito to settle a dispute] That was Junior's neighborhood, now's its mine
- Silvio Dante: Whoa, keep your voice down
- Vito Spatafore: It was Eugene's going on three years and Eugene was with me
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: He should've never had it to begin with except with the beef with that guy: Junior ruled on it and it wasn't right then
- Vito Spatafore: [irritated by Bobby] This fuckin guy!
- Silvio Dante: [to Vito] How much we talking about?
- Vito Spatafore: 3g's a week
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: Maybe that's what that guy admitted to you, I heard 5
- Vito Spatafore: [to Bobby] You heard wrong
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: What do we do here, Sil?
- Silvio Dante: [after thinking it over] Here's the thing
- Vito Spatafore: What, skip?
- Silvio Dante: For the time being, it's Bobby's... but his still gonna kick up twenty percent to you
- Vito Spatafore: How long is for the time being?
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: Yeah, Sil?
- Silvio Dante: [to both of them] What, you speak Norwegian? For now
- Carmela Soprano: [running into each other in the supermarket] Hi, how are you?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How are you is more the point
- Carmela Soprano: I'm running around crazy here: my son was supposed to get coffee but he told the maid to, it's the one thing I have to have. I got your note, it was so thoughtful
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I've been calling the hospital and they say Anthony is stabilized
- Carmela Soprano: That's what they say
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: If you or anyone needs anything, to talk or to run winterference with the doctors, don't hesitate to call
- Carmela Soprano: I appreciate that, I have plenty of people around I can talk to
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Of course, good luck
- Gabriella Dante: I am so proud of you
- Silvio Dante: Acting boss, I thought the day would never come
- Gabriella Dante: you always sold yourself short
- Silvio Dante: You know that's not what I mean. You know me, all I ever wanted was to carve" out" a little piece: enjoy some grandkids
- Gabriella Dante: How many guys can step into Tony's shoes and do the job you're doing?
- Silvio Dante: You think?
- Gabriella Dante: You have such strength in crisis, Benny told me he feels his honored to drive you. Your firm about what you want without being obnoxious about it. Have you ever asked yourself if God forbid, Tony Soprano doesn't recover?
- Silvio Dante: listen, I never talk to you about my work
- Gabriella Dante: and?
- Silvio Dante: I'll tell you something I never told anybody. Back when Jackie was at the end, he "floated" the idea of me stepping up to the "big seat" not Tony: me
- Gabriella Dante: Really?
- Silvio Dante: Yeah, but I thought it's not for me
- Gabriella Dante: still, you wouldn't "sneeze" at it?
- Silvio Dante: I never saw myself as that kind of guy, I'm more behind the scenes, give advice, strategy
- Gabriella Dante: And here you are, the "Times make the man", honey: not the other way around
- Christopher Moltisanti: [after Benny and Murmur drag JT out of a writing class he was teaching and into their SUV, referring to the money JT owes Christopher] don't give me that fuckin fish eye. I'm giving you a way to wipe away your obligation. It wasn't me that told you to start gambling again
- J.T. Dolan: I can't write a feature now. I just landed a staff job
- Christopher Moltisanti: People are seeing huge profits with these digital horror movies. Douche bags that never made a film before
- Benny Fazio: That Saw thing, four hundred grand to make: took in a hundred million worldwide
- J.T. Dolan: I'm a hundred percent well, I deliver this script, I owe you nothing?
- Christopher Moltisanti: [to Benny and Murmur, telling JT what details to include in the movie] you hear this dude?"A hundred percent well ",his a bad boy huh? With that lingo, real fuckin dark character. My idea is Saw meets The Godfather Two. Proven track records, both genres. Young wise guy, assassin, and gets betrayed by his people. They whack him, leave his body parts in dumpsters all around the city, long story short, his put back by science or is it super natural? And he gets fuckin pay back on everyone who fucked him over including the cunt he was engaged to. She was getting "porked" by his boss the night the hero was killed. Have a meeting tomorrow, we'll hear what you fleshed out before we go to script. Bing two thirty don't make me come looking for you
- Christopher Moltisanti: [while visiting Tony in the hospital] listen T, there was something I wanted to talk to you about: I'm going to take another run at the movie business. I know you haven't liked that in the past but I'm going about it in a whole different way. In fact, I hope you become an investor when you feel better and I can explain what we're doing, it's pretty exciting. We'll own the "neg" that's what they call it. It means negative. I'm holding a large ownership position for you, I hope you approve. Actually, frankly, all due respect, I think you owe me this because I came to you about Adriana
- Carmela Soprano: [after seeing a news report showing AJ cursing at reporters, rushes into his room to confront him] I swear I'm going to fucking kill you
- A.J. Soprano: [after Carmella pulls his blanket off him] what the fuck?
- Carmela Soprano: You made a fool of yourself and our family on national fuckin television
- Carmela Soprano: I didn't even say that shit. They totally misquoted me
- Carmela Soprano: Of course they did. That's what they do. Which is why I and everybody else told you don't talk to the press
- A.J. Soprano: Yeah well, your the one who looks like an asshole: dragging me around like I was five years old
- Carmela Soprano: [Calling him the religious idiom] Your a "cross to bear", to me, to your father to everybody
- A.J. Soprano: [Before storming out, grabbing his shoes and clothes] fuck this! Fuck it all!
- Carmela Soprano: [while in the hospital cafeteria] I hear Sil is at Barnabas? My God, what is happening to us around here?
- Vito Spatafore: Sil's gonna be fine: you have enough worries. Listen, sweetheart, I know your expecting "something" and I can't get into specifics, Tony wouldn't want me to but there are certain people looking over our shoulder right now
- Carmela Soprano: It's ok, I'm not expecting anything", money's not an issue. Like you said, I've got bigger worries, like this son of mine
- Vito Spatafore: You gotta trust me on this Hun, "suspicions" get raised, if I were to "move it" to you at this moment
- Vito Spatafore: [referring to paying for her breakfast] I got this
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How can I help you?
- Carmela Soprano: It's about my son... both kids really, this situation with the shooting. I'm very worried about them
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Sure
- Carmela Soprano: It's a very serious problem, you know with guns in the home: it's a "societal concern." Obviously, we learned our lesson too late. I immediately removed all the firearms from the house after what's going on with Tony's uncle. Anyway, last night, I was shrieking at my son and I said something very cruel, and especially since he is trying so hard
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How are you doing?
- Carmela Soprano: I'm frazzled certainly, but I am more worried about them: they're not "kids" anymore. When they were young, there were certain things we could tell them about Tony's life... lies, just call them what they were
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: so, the issue isn't just guns in the home?
- Carmela Soprano: [after thinking it over] honestly, I think about my son in front of those news cameras, having to "vouch" for all of this. My daughter and her friends, they have to face all these years of façading"
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [referring to Carmela's children] "They" do or "you" do?
- Carmela Soprano: The minute I met Tony, I knew who that guy was. On our second date, he brought me and mother each a dozen roses and my father a two-hundred-dollar power drill
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Not the typical story of "young love"
- Carmela Soprano: and I don't know if I loved him in spite of it or because of it. My parents weren't like that and I knew, whether consciously or not consciously, I knew behind that power drill was some guy with a broken arm, you know, or worse
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: And you coped with that, how?
- Carmela Soprano: I would go to my priest and cry about how bad I felt on how my husband made his money but that was bullshit because there are far bigger crooks than my husband
- Carmela Soprano: [becoming emotional] But the kids, they... don't decide who their born to
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So, now what?
- Carmela Soprano: Yeah, that's just it, now what? It's all out in the open now, the whole thing and they're not in grade school anymore. They've become... the longer they've stayed with us
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [assuming what she's referring to] Complicit
- Carmela Soprano: [wipes away her tears] Oh, God
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Putting aside the moral and legal issues, clarity can't be a "bad thing"
- Carmela Soprano: Yes, Tony's second night in the coma, I told him I loved him. When was the last time I said that?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Are you afraid you aren't going to feel that way, when he wakes up? Anthony tells me things are better between you two