- Richie Aprile: [about Janice] We're adults, Tony. And we got history together.
- Tony Soprano: Yeah. Israel and fuckin' Palestine.
- Richie Aprile: People change. I was away a long time. I thought a lot about her.
- Tony Soprano: Ten years, you thought about Janice? There are men in the can better looking than my sister.
- Writing coach: Welcome. Why don't you tell the group something about yourself?
- Christopher Moltisanti: My name is Chris Maceviti. I work on Wall Street. Not on Wall Street, but you know, stocks.
- Writing coach: You write?
- Christopher Moltisanti: Yeah... I want to write for the movies. "Goodfellas", shit like that.
- Writing coach: Any special reason you chose this class?
- Christopher Moltisanti: I didn't. It's a birthday present from my girlfriend. I had some problems with my screenplay so, I bought that book, "how to write a movie in 21 days". That was like a year ago.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: It was a downpour. He couldn't see anything, it was impossible.
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Where are you in the dream?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I'm there. I could observe everything. He's driving. He starts to hyperventilate. He grabs for a bottle of Prozac, but it's empty. And all the while this is happening that song from "The Wizard of Oz" is playing. He goes into a full-blown panic attack and he passes out. He crashes into this huge truck. The fact that he can't see the road ahead suggests my abandoning him.
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Who in Wizard would your patient be?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Given the fact that he's a powerful, dominating male, Oz himself.
- [Elliot arches his eyebrows]
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What, with the eyebrows already?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: The Wizard of Oz, what memories does it conjure up?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: My parents' house, watching it on TV. Hiding under the blanket with my sister.
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Why do we love roller coasters, Jennifer? Scary movies?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [annoyed] To experience the thrill of being terrified, without the consequences. That's very good, Elliot.
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Great film, but some terrifying moments.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That's very perceptive.
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: I'm concerned that treating a mobster provides you some vicarious thrill.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: It wasn't exactly vicarious. I had to go into hiding, remember?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: And wasn't that thrilling?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Fuck you! You think this is funny, you smug cocksucker! Fuck you!
- [walks out]
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Are you still taking your medication?
- Tony Soprano: Off and on
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You should either take it or don't take it ok?
- Tony Soprano: [Nods]
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: In the coffee shop you mentioned you had a panic attack that led to an automobile accident?
- Tony Soprano: It seems like years ago
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You mean you're so busy? Or you mean you're angry with me for not agreeing to treat you then?
- Tony Soprano: I found out a little "medical history". My old man had the same thing: panic attacks followed by passing out. Cracked his head on a cigarette machine
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Interesting
- Tony Soprano: Interesting? That's it? You're not going to send me for tests or something? Did you read the article in The Times?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Anthony, what is it you want to "achieve" here
- Tony Soprano: What I want to "achieve"? I want to stop passing out. I want to stop panicking. I want to direct my power and my anger to the people that deserve it. I want to be in total control
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: There's no such thing as "total control."
- Tony Soprano: Of course there is
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You want to be a better gang leader? Read The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Tony Soprano: You know what? Fuck you, you know who I am and you know what I do. You called me. You know where I was when you called?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I don't know
- Tony Soprano: I was outside a whore house where a guy who works for me was beating the shit out of someone who owes me money, broke his arm. Put a bullet in his knee cap
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How'd that make you feel?
- Tony Soprano: I wished it was me in there
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Getting the beating or taking it?
- Tony Soprano: [Smiles, remains silent]
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You know we should hit a Devils game some night
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: You still get tickets from the Greek?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Right on the fuckin ice
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: I'll bring my sweater
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [Greeting Furio as he walks up to their table] hey, "chef of the future", have a seat
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: [to Furio, intentionally mispronouncing his name, mocking him] how you doing?
- Furio Giunta: [Correcting him, unaware of the insult] Furio
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: [while Furio pours wine for him, jokingly then laughing] you didn't stomp those grapes yourself, did you?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Noticing them] look at this group
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [to Johnny] hey, "Mr. New York." What did you do? Swim across that river?
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Before hugging him, referring to his promotion] come over here: congratulations
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [to Pussy, referring to his impoliteness] hey, don't get up
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: I wasn't gonna
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: [Jokingly] piece of shit
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [referring to Italy] Say hello to Furio, "friend of ours" from the "other side"
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: Oh, hey, I heard a lot about you
- Furio Giunta: Nice to meet you
- Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni: Yeah, me too, my pleasure
- Tony Soprano: [Surprised to see Richie answering the door at Tony's mother's house early in the morning] the fuck you doing here? Where's my sister?
- Richie Aprile: Store, I'm making breakfast, want some eggs?
- Tony Soprano: Do I want some eggs? Why don't you put your fuckin pants on?
- Richie Aprile: Let's have some coffee
- Tony Soprano: So what the fuck? The mattress in the shelter a little too lumpy?
- Richie Aprile: [Referring to Janice] We're adults, and we got history together
- Tony Soprano: Yeah: Israel and fuckin Palestine
- Richie Aprile: People change. I was away a long time, I thought a lot about her
- Tony Soprano: Ten years, you thought about Janice? There are men in the can better looking than my sister. I hope you're not thinking about moving in here
- Richie Aprile: It's late, I slept over. We're taking it slow ok? Picking up where we left off
- Tony Soprano: High school: grabbing blowjobs on my mother's couch
- Richie Aprile: You crossed the line on me once, I held my tongue, she may be your sister, back the fuck off... all due respect
- Tony Soprano: [Sternly] respect? What the fuck do you know about respect? I put you back in business you cocksucker
- Tony Soprano: [Meeting privately] Let's walk. I need you to head out to Newark for me
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Airport?
- Tony Soprano: Alitalia. Friend of ours is coming in
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Who? Mauro Zucca's wife?
- Tony Soprano: No, Furio
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [jokingly] Furio? Coming here? What? To see what indoor plumbing looks like?
- Tony Soprano: I'm making some changes
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [Sarcastically] well, thanks for fuckin telling me. When was this decided? Did I do something wrong?
- Tony Soprano: Sunday: my house, a box of Mallomars on the counter, fuckin empty... you think I didn't know it was you?
- Tony Soprano: [When Paulie doesn't respond] I'm kiddin' with you, you fuck. Him coming over is good: you're getting a bump
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Fuckin Mallomars, I thought you lost your mind?
- Tony Soprano: Listen, the way things are, I gotta step back, Feds find an excuse and I'll do a dime for jaywalking
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Not like the old days, huh?
- Tony Soprano: Furio being here frees you up, frees me up. It's me, then you, and Sil together, that's the new pecking order
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: What about Puss?
- Tony Soprano: Pussy reports to you guys, directly, same with Furio
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [after hugging] this means a lot to me
- Tony Soprano: This Russian fuck... friggin lucky I didn't get hauled in. I had to run like a bitch from my own leisure time "activities." Carmela would've known who I was on the boat with, ok that's nothing new but my kids?
- Hesh Rabkin: It happens ok?
- Tony Soprano: The fuck is wrong with me?
- Hesh Rabkin: Some kind of "complex"
- Tony Soprano: What kind?
- Hesh Rabkin: You know sleep always helps
- Tony Soprano: You want to go to sleep? Go ahead
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: [Meeting privately] it's like all these years was for nothing
- Skip Lipari: What'd I tell you? You think Tony really gives a flying fuck about you?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: [referring to the mafia code] This "thing of ours", fuckin joke: more like this "thing of mine"
- Skip Lipari: It's the same all over, look out for "number one"
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: You don't understand, we go fuckin back. I mean Silvio I get, but fuckin Paulie?
- Skip Lipari: He's probably dizzy from all that hairspray?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: And this other one: the "Geep" Furio, if there ever was a guy desperate in need of a nickname
- Skip Lipari: At least his Italian, try being passed over for a Samoan, three years out of Quantico and he's the new agent in charge
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: Your fuckin kidding me, what happened to Peturno?
- Skip Lipari: Kansas City: eleven years doing this shit
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: It's like Tony says himself: most of the guys in this life, there's no fuckin honor, forget your enemies, you can't even depend on your friends
- Skip Lipari: The whole society is fucked
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero: No one's coming up, half of them are on drugs, the other half are fuckin psychos
- Skip Lipari: The world full of scumbags
- Tony Soprano: [Talking privately] since I'm here, can I talk to you about something? It absolutely has to stay between us: things are going good. I'm permanently in charge, no trouble there and my family's healthy
- Hesh Rabkin: Uh huh
- Tony Soprano: So why the fuck am I ripping phones out of the wall in front of my kid? Screaming at my sister all the fuckin time when she's totally unimportant to me?
- Hesh Rabkin: You got a lot on your mind
- Tony Soprano: Because I'm the boss? See? That's the point: you never saw Carbo Lucky or Douglas MacArthur going around punchin fuckin walls
- Tony Soprano: [When he doesn't respond] what if I told you I was seeing a shrink?
- Hesh Rabkin: I had an inkling
- Tony Soprano: Once in a while I get..."anxious", not just in general: no reason. It's like when I'm in my kitchen, all of a sudden I can't breathe alright? It's like I'm suffocating, I get to the point where I fuckin pass out
- Hesh Rabkin: I think your father had the same thing
- Tony Soprano: [Surprised] my old man had anxiety attacks?
- Hesh Rabkin: Well, in those days we called it a "condition." It didn't happen that often: once or twice a year
- Tony Soprano: Holy shit
- Hesh Rabkin: He cracked his head once on a cigarette machine
- Tony Soprano: Did he go to a doctor?
- Hesh Rabkin: You're father? What're you kidding? It wouldn't have made any difference in those days, they didn't know how to treat that shit
- Tony Soprano: It's not much better now
- Hesh Rabkin: There's an article in the New York Times magazine, they got this machine, they can see images of the brain and how your brain responds to "fear"
- Tony Soprano: [Concerned] "fear"
- Hesh Rabkin: See, if there's a person listening to a tape of parent criticizing them, I'm talking about an adult mind you, it "fears" them, it kicks right in: you can actually see it in an MRI
- Tony Soprano: I had this fuckin weird dream the other night, I was at the beach but I had a suit on, shoes too
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [Referring to Tony Soprano] I'm seriously thinking about taking my patient back
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: It's a serious decision
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: His my responsibility, I abandoned him
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: We've been over this: your life's in danger
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Not anymore. Do you realize what I did last week? I stormed out of here like child. Cursing, threatening, acting out, and that's exactly what he does to me. I'm feeling so... fuck I don't know where this is coming from
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: You... mentioned you put on a little weight lately. Do you think you overeating had anything to do with your patient? What is it you're not telling me?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I don't know, I don't know what you mean
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Ok
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [Innocently] I don't, what are you "driving" at?
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Just... what is your intake of sugar and sugar substitutes?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [ignoring his question] Ok
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: When we spoke last time about childhood fascinations with danger
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I think seeing him again will be therapeutic for me
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: It's not supposed to be therapeutic for you. This is your therapy here
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: [When she doesn't respond] do you have sexual feelings for him?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: No, I had feelings on a personal level. He can be such a little boy sometimes