The Sopranos (TV Series)

The Fleshy Part of the Thigh (2006)

Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano

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• 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

• 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