The Sopranos (TV Series)

The Fleshy Part of the Thigh (2006)

James Gandolfini: Tony Soprano

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• Bob Brewster : Some people would have you believe dinosaurs existed millions of years ago. It's just not true! God created the Earth six thousand years ago. And I tell my kids: 'You have to remember: dinosaurs and human beings lived on the Earth at the same time!'

  Tony Soprano : What? Like the Flintstones?

  Bob Brewster : It's in the Bible!

  Tony Soprano : What about all that Carbon dating stuff? A lot of scientists would disagree with you!

  Bob Brewster : I think you'll find those people all have an agenda, Tony: Evolution, which is Satan's plan to deny God! Evolution and Salvation are mutually exclusive!

  Tony Soprano : Guy next door is a scientist. Think he'd disagree with you big time!

  Bob Brewster : Then that man's not saved!

• Tony Soprano : [while watching a boxing match together in the hospital, referring to the boxer Da Lux bet on]  your boy's getting tired

  Da Lux : The fool's costing me fifty G's

  Tony Soprano : Who'd you play the action with?

  Da Lux : Pinnacle

  Tony Soprano : Online? What price did they give you on Alverez?

  Da Lux : Three fifty

  Tony Soprano : My friend here give you three seventy-five, right Paulie?

  Tony Soprano : [after Paulie remains silent, referring to the boxer during the break]  I wonder what kind of health insurance his getting?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's a life of abuse

  John Schwinn : Well, he is a boxer

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's the same for everybody. Look at you T, you do your uncle a kindness: get shot for your efforts. You think you got family? In the end, they fuck you too

  Tony Soprano : [to everyone in the room]  His grieving, his aunt just died

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [Referring to the boxer]  I'll tell ya each and every one of us are alone in the ring, fighting for our lives, just like that poor prick

  John Schwinn : Well, that's one way to look at it

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You got another one?

  John Schwinn : Don't get me started, it's complicated

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You think I'm stupid?

  John Schwinn : It's actually an illusion those two boxers as separate entities

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : What the fuck?

  John Schwinn : The separate entities is simply the way we chose to perceive them

  Tony Soprano : I didn't choose nothing

  John Schwinn : It's physics. Schrodinger's Equation: the boxers, you, me are all part of the same quantum field

  Blinged-Out Girlfriend : You ever substitute teach at Carter Middle School?

  Tony Soprano : His a rocket scientist for Christ's sake, Bell labs

  Tony Soprano : [to Schwinn]  you were saying?

  John Schwinn : Well, think of those two boxers as ocean waves or two currents of air, two tornadoes, they appear to be two things right? Two separate things but they're not. The tornadoes are just wind stirred up in different directions. The fact is nothing is separate, everything is connected

  Da Lux : Everything is everything, I'm down with that

• Tony Soprano : [while in the elevator after meeting with Phil]  you got your head up your ass today, what's going on?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : My aunt Dottie's been sick, the call I got: she just died

  Tony Soprano : Oh sorry, your mom's sister or your dad's?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Mom's

  Tony Soprano : She must be broken up?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [after they arrive on their hospital floor]  here we are

  Tony Soprano : I guess your brother and sister are coming in?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah

  Tony Soprano : Your aunt, the nun?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah

  Tony Soprano : [Referring to the coif that is worn by nuns]  I always wondered, they got hair under there?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah, short

  Tony Soprano : Maybe you don't want to talk about it

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah

• Tony Soprano : [Meeting outside the hospital]  not even a courtesy call and you approach my company?

  Phil Leotardo : No disrespect Tony, you've been in a coma

  Tony Soprano : So that gives you Carte blanche?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's that fuckin John, his sitting in the can, the Feds are trying to take everything his got. His in a panic state

  Tony Soprano : Alright I'm sensitive to that but whatever happens to Barone Sanitation, I've got to be kept on. I need that W-2 and now you can see I'm facing a long convalescence and Barone is my secondary insurance carrier. I need it

  Phil Leotardo : John's going to take care of you, you know that. What your asking: twenty-five percent of the sales price, a year's salary until retirement, plus skim? Come on

  Tony Soprano : [Eventually turns to Paulie and asks him]  look, I don't want to argue. I'm not well so I'll give John a break on the skim. I'm getting two G's a week now

  Tony Soprano : [to Paulie]  how many stops we based that on?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [after Tony asks him a second time catching him off guard]  eleven

  Tony Soprano : The fuck you talking about? It's at least twenty-five

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [to Phil before his cell phone rings]  twenty-five

  Tony Soprano : Alright I'll take the skim on twenty, fifteen hundred a week but I stay on the payroll as is

  Phil Leotardo : All I can do is deliver the message Anthony

• Phil Leotardo : [while entering the room]  Anthony

  Tony Soprano : [Gestures to him to close the door] 

  Phil Leotardo : John doesn't want another unfortunate incident. His willing to let you keep your paycheck and your W-2 for ten years. To replace your skim, he'll jack up the sales price to twelve percent

  Tony Soprano : No more skim? Truth be told, there's enough garbage for everybody

  Phil Leotardo : Does that mean we got a deal?

  Tony Soprano : [Before shaking hands]  yeah we got a deal

• Bob Brewster : [while visiting Tony with Aaron]  you're having surgery tomorrow, you know they've done clinical studies on the power of prayer? Praying for patients have an eleven percent fewer complications

  Carmela Soprano : I have read that: it does help to pray, even if it just helps take your mind off of it

  Bob Brewster : [leading them in a prayer]  Dear Jesus, hear these words, bestow your healing, loving grace, upon our injured friend, Lord help heal his wounds, and help him with your cleansing love, pursue the bounds, grace his bounds even more... Amen

  Tony Soprano : [crosses himself]  Amen

  Carmela Soprano : [crosses herself]  Amen

  Aaron Arkaway : [crosses himself]  Amen

  Tony Soprano : So, reverend, Lemme ask you about this guy not selling birth control?

  Bob Brewster : He should be free to exercise his moral convictions without... suffering loss of livelihood

  Tony Soprano : [confused]  Here's what I'm getting at, I'm worried about Viagra: the way I see it, I'm gonna need plenty of that, considering my condition, and... what if somebody decides that Viagra is wrong? God don't like it

  Bob Brewster : Well, God loves procreation: no one's saying anything against Viagra. Birth control and the morning-after pill is a sin because it strikes at life: at the unborn

  Tony Soprano : Yeah, but what if somebody goes after Viagra? I'm not talking about procreation

  Tony Soprano : [points to Carmela]  listen up because this concerns you too

  Bob Brewster : Something like Viagra will never be an issue

  Tony Soprano : Excuse me but at one time, they were going after booze and as a proprietor of a drinking and eating establishment, I take this stuff very seriously

  Bob Brewster : Strip club, I believe it is

  Tony Soprano : Oh, you've been to The Bing?

  Bob Brewster : [shakes his head]  No

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to Tony]  He should rest, thank you so much for coming and Aaron thank you so much for your prayer

• Meadow Soprano : [reading to him from a book]  "In Montana, the fossilized remains of a Tyrannosaurus Rex yielded soft tissue that indicated a definite link between dinosaurs and modern birds"

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [while entering the room with Jason]  Look who I got here

  Tony Soprano : [referring to Jason]  Oh, the "sanitation prince"

  Jason Barone : [smiles]  Hi, Tony, I'm sorry you're not feeling well

  Tony Soprano : Thank you, sorry about your loss. Your father and I were very close

  Tony Soprano : [gestures to her]  Remember my daughter Meadow?

  Tony Soprano : [introducing Meadow to him]  Jason Barone

  Meadow Soprano : Hi

  Jason Barone : Hey

  Tony Soprano : Remember when you were a kid, at that field box at Shea, opening day? Me, you, your dad, Paulie here?

  Jason Barone : Oh, yeah, Kingman was just back from the Cubs

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Mookie Wilson hit that foul tip and beamed that guy in the lobe?

  Meadow Soprano : [kisses Tony before leaving]  I gotta get to the office: Finn's picking me up, I'll be back later

  Tony Soprano : Sweetheart, thank you for everything

  Meadow Soprano : [to Jason and Paulie, referring to Tony]  Don't wear him out

  Tony Soprano : [to Jason, referring to Meadow]  She wants to be doctor

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Also considering law

  Tony Soprano : [as Jason sits next his bed]  So you living in... Deer Valley?

  Jason Barone : Yeah, ski instructor

  Tony Soprano : So, Paulie tells me your thinking of selling your father's business to Chuckie Cinelli?

  Jason Barone : Yeah, I think it's the best thing for mom, and of course there'd be a severance package for you

  Tony Soprano : [sighs]  Frankly, I don't you should sell the business right now: there's a lot of "potential" buyers out there. When I get out of the hospital, I'll run the numbers and get you the "best price"

  Meadow Soprano : Cinelli's offer seemed "fair"

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : There's lots of things to take into account: you even know what your is EBITDA is?

  Jason Barone : [confused]  My what?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It gives the picture of the company's profitability

  Tony Soprano : [when Jason doesn't respond]  Jason, you let me handle this, I don't wanna see you get hurt: the carting business is a different "corporate culture"

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Your tired T, we'll leave, come on

• Aaron Arkaway : [after entering the hospital room]  have you heard the good news?

  Tony Soprano : [surprised to see him]  Jesus Christ!

  Aaron Arkaway : [reminding Tony who he is]  that's right, Aaron Arkaway, Jan's friend?

  Tony Soprano : oh, yeah, right

  Aaron Arkaway : [shows him his cardboard sign]  we're protesting downstairs, I saw Jan in the elevator this morning: she told me you were up here

  Tony Soprano : so, that's all the yelling and singing is?

  Aaron Arkaway : druggist from the hospital pharmacy was fired for refusing to fill birth control prescriptions: we're trying to get his job back

  Aaron Arkaway : [introducing him]  this is our prayer leader, Bob Brewster

  Bob Brewster : Hi, Aaron's told me a lot about you. I thought we'd come up and pray with you?

  Tony Soprano : [jokingly]  "bottom feeding", huh?

  Bob Brewster : it's where the "big fish" are

  Tony Soprano : [while forcibly pressing the button for his morphine dispenser]  son of a fuckin bitch. They cut my morphine off, their trying to "wing" me off

  Bob Brewster : you know, I've seen people being delivered from unbelievable pain: myself included

  Tony Soprano : oh, yeah?

  Bob Brewster : I was at rock bottom, I was addicted to cocaine and strippers, then I lost my wife, then I crashed my car, drunk, ended up upside down, hanging by my seatbelt, completely terrified and I prayed for God to save me and He came in

  Aaron Arkaway : praise Him

  Bob Brewster : and in that moment, and I was "reborn" and I see you there and I know your hurting, and the answer is to accept the Lord as your personal Savior

  Tony Soprano : [reluctantly]  well, I got all this covered, you know with my parish priest

  Bob Brewster : that's great but what God wants is for you to love Him directly, not necessarily through the intervention of liturgy or any human "agent"

  Carmela Soprano : [after entering the room and seeing him]  is this Aaron Arkaway?

  Aaron Arkaway : hey

  Carmela Soprano : what're you fellas doing here?

  Bob Brewster : Mrs. Soprano?

  Carmela Soprano : uh huh

  Bob Brewster : we were just dialoging with your husband: we were about to pray

  Tony Soprano : [to Carmela, referring to Aaron and Bob]  they were

• Carmela Soprano : [referring to the money from the heist]  Listen, that package from Vito and Paulie, I have to believe that there was more there

  Tony Soprano : Sure, so?

  Carmela Soprano : Vito is especially somebody you should watch

  Catherine Lipman : [after knocking on the door and entering the room]  Good morning, Mr. Soprano

  Tony Soprano : [jokingly]  Ah, the bird of prey

  Catherine Lipman : [while reviewing his medical report]  Ok, it looks here like your last drainage tube is coming out today. Dr. Plepler says you are stable and your pain is manageable, so that's good news: your husband's coming home

  Carmela Soprano : Are you sure his ready?

  Tony Soprano : What'd she give a shit? She's trying to save a buck

  Tony Soprano : [to Lipman as she leaves]  Hold on a minute, that guy next door, Mr. Schwinn, had surgery for cancer this morning... you know anything about it?

  Catherine Lipman : I heard that they removed his larynx

• Nurse Fiona Macken : [while attending to his gunshot wound]  I'll be as fast as I can

  Tony Soprano : [referring to his wound]  Jesus Christ, I'll never get used to seeing that

  Nurse Fiona Macken : You won't have to much longer. We have you scheduled for surgery tomorrow, finally closing you up

  Tony Soprano : More surgery?

  Nurse Fiona Macken : It's a good sign, Dr. Plepler doesn't think he'll need access anymore

  Nurse Fiona Macken : [as he presses the button for the morphine dispenser]  watch it with the morphine now

  Nurse Fiona Macken : [when she sees a Ojibwe quote written on a note pinned to his wall]  beautiful thought, who put that up?

  Tony Soprano : [irritated, referring to Janice]  my sister, who else?

  Nurse Fiona Macken : Well, you keep it up there if you don't find it inspirational

  Tony Soprano : My daughter likes it. Everybody keeps telling me how lucky I am

  Nurse Fiona Macken : You are: septic shock. As long as you were out, attending staff gave you twenty to one

  Tony Soprano : You read the paper? My own uncle put me through this

  Nurse Fiona Macken : [after seeing Da Lux's hospital bed pushed past Tony's room]  New gunshot, rapper: Da Lux, his hot, got shot seven times coming out of a club. His still got all his papers though

  Nurse Fiona Macken : [referring to changing the bandages for his gunshot wound]  All done

  Tony Soprano : Look, I've been feeling... I don't know, not "myself" since I woke up from the coma. My thoughts keep "running away with me"

  Nurse Fiona Macken : these feelings will pass: it's common in post-surgical patients. Maybe you'd like to talk to someone? Social worker?

• Catherine Lipman : [after entering his hospital room]  Good afternoon, how are you doing?

  Tony Soprano : [when noticing she's attractive]  Better now

  Catherine Lipman : I'm glad to hear that

  Tony Soprano : [jokingly]  Where have they been keeping you? The other doctors around here it's like the United Colors of Benneton

  Catherine Lipman : [amused]  I'm not a doctor. I'm a Utilization Review Specialist, I represent your insurance carrier: It's my job together with your physicians to see how fast we can get you out of this place and back home

  Catherine Lipman : [while reviewing his medical chart]  Well, this is good: they've closed your incision and your ambulatory now and I see that they got the foley out

  Tony Soprano : [surprised]  You wanna kick me out of here

  Catherine Lipman : A hospital stay costs a lot money

  Tony Soprano : My bowels don't work, I'm in pain, I just got operated on for Christ's sake

  Catherine Lipman : Well, perhaps your bowels would be working better if you hadn't tried to eat the sausage sandwich on 3/28?

  Tony Soprano : You know, I don't believe this: with all the money I've been contributing over the years, you want to put me in the street

  Catherine Lipman : You think we're the enemy but if you hadn't had insurance, you would've ended up at the county hospital. It's a good thing you had your insurance card with you when they performed the "wallet biopsy"

  Tony Soprano : The what?

  Catherine Lipman : [referring to the paramedics]  In the ambulance, if you hadn't had your insurance card with you, they would've dropped your butt at Martin Luther King

  Tony Soprano : [disgusted]  The "wallet biopsy"? Get out of my room you sick cunt