- Tony Soprano: Grandpa. Did he ever work for somebody named Trillo? He owned a lumber yard?
- Junior Soprano: My father was a master stone mason. He never cut fucking wood.
- Silvio Dante: [referring to Ralph's snubbing of Tony] "Another time, Anthony"?
- Tony Soprano: Cocksucker turns his back on the boss?
- Silvio Dante: That, I couldn't believe.
- Tony Soprano: Lucky I didn't put one in his fuckin' head.
- Silvio Dante: On that front, don't be surprised if Paulie pops the question. Raphie's star is rising. All those unions. Paulie can't come near that kind of cash for us.
- Tony Soprano: Ralph's a good earner.
- Silvio Dante: A guy like that? Loose cannon. He'll be leaving your house, he'll pull a "Jack Ruby" on you.
- Tony Soprano: Why did I have to punch this fuckin' asshole?
- Silvio Dante: Frankly, I was a little surprised.
- Tony Soprano: Are you gonna start on me now? He disrespected The Bing.
- Silvio Dante: So? He's barred from the place.
- Tony Soprano: He bashed that poor girl's brains in.
- Silvio Dante: I hear you. I know. It was a tragedy. The fact is though: she was not related to you by blood or marriage. She was not your goomar. Ralphie's a made guy, Ton'. All things considered, he's got a legitimate beef. Make him disappear, or make nice. You only got two choices. I would suggest something in the way of an apology.
- Tony Soprano: Absolutely fucking not!
- Silvio Dante: Do something public to show there's no bad blood.
- Tony Soprano: [Eating while ignoring Ralphie when he approached the table as Christopher and Paulie stand guard nearby] you wanted to see me?
- Ralph Cifaretto: [after he cleared his throat when he approached Tony's table so Tony will acknowledge his presence] yeah Tony
- Tony Soprano: [Pretending not to know Ralphie's wrongdoings] about what?
- Ralph Cifaretto: About what? You know, to apologize
- Tony Soprano: Oh
- Ralph Cifaretto: I was doing a lot of coke, I said some things, and I did some things that I'm sorry for. It's not going to happen again.
- Tony Soprano: [Continuing to pretend not to know Ralphie's wrongdoings so Ralphie can specifically admit each one] what'd you do?
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Eventually referring to killing the stripper Tracee in the back parking lot of Silvio's strip club] I was rude when you offered me the drink and I disrespected The Bing with the girl. Like I said I was doing a lot of coke and I gave up that up: end of story and I'm sorry Tony, ok?
- Tony Soprano: [Before Ralphie shakes his head and walks away] anything else?
- Tony Soprano: Its 3am, I'm wide awake
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Something specific?
- Tony Soprano: It's a "management" problem, it's a situation with an underling, now it's partly my fault. But he have never done what he did
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What was it? Could you tell me that?
- Tony Soprano: Caused an early "retirement" for somebody else, I think he thought he was more important, he fucked up. Now ordinarily I'd just you know, just put him "out to pasture". But his a very valuable piece of man power
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Is it complicated by a personal relationship?
- Tony Soprano: [Intentionally changing the subject] I've been reading that book you were telling me about The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [Nods]
- Tony Soprano: I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general wrote this thing twenty four hundred years ago and most of it still applies today, bought the enemy's power, force him to reveal himself
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [Interrupts him] I have to ask, are you in any sort of danger?
- Tony Soprano: No, can I go on? Most of the guys I know read Prince Machiavelli and I had Carmela get the Cliffs Notes once and his ok, but this book is much better about strategy
- Tony Soprano: [Intentionally changing the subject] Listen I wanted to ask you about that woman that was here today, the Mercedes sales lady
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I'm very sorry about the confusion
- Tony Soprano: What does someone like that need a shrink for?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I can't talk about another patient
- Tony Soprano: It just makes you wonder that's all
- Junior Soprano: That's what being a boss is. You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes its smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. In the meantime, you find your pleasures where you can.
- Ralph Cifaretto: [referring to dismissive response] nothing: he gave me nothing, not a "thank you", not an apology
- Johnny Sack: calm down, take it easy
- Ralph Cifaretto: he let stand there like a... servant, scrapping, bowing, cocksucker didn't even invite me to sit down
- Johnny Sack: posturing: it's part of the "game"
- Ralph Cifaretto: fuck the "game", his going down
- Johnny Sack: [surprised] oh, what're you fuckin stupid coming in here and talking to me like that?
- Ralph Cifaretto: I don't give a fuck anymore. I've given my life to this "thing" and this is the thanks I get?
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: [while in his car] Why don't you just bag it and come to Doug's?
- Meadow Soprano: [before kissing] Hunter's expecting me
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: We can hang out all weekend: we wouldn't have to like do "anything"
- Meadow Soprano: I have to study, don't you have midterms too?
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: I don't even go anymore
- Meadow Soprano: What? Why?
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: Organic chemistry? Nucleotides and shit. You wanna know what I'm interested in? Men's fashion, not the faggy part of it, to be like Hugo Boss
- Meadow Soprano: Did you ever think about applying to fit? It's supposed to be a good school for that
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: [seductively] Come to Doug's, I want to be with you so badly
- Meadow Soprano: I can't
- Meadow Soprano: [after seeing him disappointed] What?
- Jackie Aprile Jr.: You won't go with me but you'd go with that black guy?
- Meadow Soprano: It's not that I don't want to go, I've been hurt: just give me some time, ok?
- Ralph Cifaretto: You wanted to see me?
- Tony Soprano: Sit down. I'm making you a captain
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Surprised, excited] you are? That's great. That's fuckin great. Anthony, you're not going to be sorry. Thank you
- Tony Soprano: [after noticing Ralphie paused for a few seconds] what?
- Ralph Cifaretto: I need to hear it was merit and not just because someone was constipated and "blew a gasket."
- Tony Soprano: You're going to be making a lot more money so don't question it. You want to be a captain? You're a captain
- Ralph Cifaretto: Thank you Tony, your right. I wanted this so fuckin long
- Tony Soprano: Well you know what they say: "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it"
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Before Tony takes a shot of liquor by himself, stands up and leaves] so are we going to have a drink together or what?
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Referring to Tony canceling the holiday dinner] you hear what he did with Thanksgiving?
- Johnny Sack: It's not good Ralph
- Ralph Cifaretto: Will you please tell me what I did to this guy? Turn down a drink? I wasn't thirsty
- Johnny Sack: Ralph
- Ralph Cifaretto: Ever since I'm back from Miami, his up my ass. I'm running with three hands here and it's still not good enough to satisfy this cocksucker and then he fuckin hits me? I'm telling you his not leaving me a lot of options here
- Johnny Sack: Don't talk crazy, you want to commit suicide? Pills are a lot easier
- Ralph Cifaretto: What'd you think Carmine would say if I want to switch families? Come with you guys
- Johnny Sack: Carmine doesn't know who you are
- Ralph Cifaretto: You could tell him
- Johnny Sack: Ralph. Listen to me, as a friend I know Tony can be difficult, his father was the same, and his uncle. They always need someone to demonize but New York and Sopranos have long standing ties and that's not going to change, not for you or anybody else. You want me to be frank? You brought this on yourself with that girl
- Ralph Cifaretto: A. she was a whore, B she hit me, and C that wasn't my kid she was carrying. It was the fuckin coke I should've never started with that shit. Fuckin Miami: it's all over the place
- Johnny Sack: Just tell Anthony you're sorry
- Ralph Cifaretto: I was high, I admit it and I swear to Christ I'm not doing it anymore
- Johnny Sack: [Reiterating to him that he should apologize] "Tony, I'm sorry"
- Ralph Cifaretto: Fuck that, what good would that do?
- Johnny Sack: It might save your life
- Ralph Cifaretto: [Speaking each word slowly to emphasize his point] "he hit me"
- Johnny Sack: He was wrong believe me he knows
- Ralph Cifaretto: You don't think I know people are laughing behind my back?
- Johnny Sack: Talk to Tony. I'm sure he'll make it right
- Ralph Cifaretto: At this point? How?
- Johnny Sack: I don't know. Would you take capo over your crew?
- Ralph Cifaretto: No I wouldn't, no fuckin way
- Ralph Cifaretto: [while in a diner] you see that shit before? The look on Tony's face when I turned down that drink? Buy me a drink? Fuck you, he knew it was wrong, what he did
- Vito Spatafore: he is the boss: he can do whatever he wants
- Eugene Pontecorvo: boss or no, you don't raise your hands to another "made" guy. Joe Vul from Mulberry Street, exact same situation, he smacked that guy around
- Ralph Cifaretto: rules are rules otherwise, what? Fuckin anarchy
- Eugene Pontecorvo: at the very least, Tony owes you an apology
- Ralph Cifaretto: the money I put in his pocket from construction alone, it should hit his knees, this prick
- Ralph Cifaretto: [to Eugene when he doesn't respond] what? You think I'm afraid of that fat fuck?
- Ralph Cifaretto: [to Vito] no offense
- Ralph Cifaretto: I could see if it was his daughter or a niece of his but all this over some dead whore, he had to been fuckin her
- Vito Spatafore: no, he knew you were fuckin her
- Ralph Cifaretto: that's why, that's how he is, like a dog with two bones. I'm supposed to go over there for Thanksgiving, me and Roe
- Eugene Pontecorvo: really?
- Ralph Cifaretto: fuck him and his turkey, I should shove a drumstick up his ass
- Gloria Trillo: [while in Melfi's waiting area, gestures to Melfi's office] You waiting somebody in there?
- Tony Soprano: I got an appointment
- Gloria Trillo: Did she double book us? I'm usually Thursday but I had to reschedule because of the holiday
- Tony Soprano: This is when I usually come, I'm trying to... quit smoking
- Gloria Trillo: [jokingly] Serial killer: I murdered seven relationships
- Tony Soprano: [after laughing] Listen, your here, why don't you take my appointment?
- Gloria Trillo: Oh, no I couldn't do that
- Tony Soprano: It'd be my good deed for the day
- Carmela Soprano: [over the phone] this is so terrible to do on such short notice but I just got off the phone with ma
- Rosalie Aprile: what's the matter?
- Carmela Soprano: it's my father: they had some troubling test results, something to do with his white blood cells
- Rosalie Aprile: oh my God
- Carmela Soprano: yeah, I know, their gonna have to do further testing to be sure of the diagnosis. Ma said they just want to have a quiet Thanksgiving, they said they would have it: just the two of them
- Rosalie Aprile: they should be with their family
- Carmela Soprano: I feel so awful giving you so little notice
- Rosalie Aprile: don't be silly, I just wish there was something I could do
- Carmela Soprano: thank you, that is so sweet and of course I'll let you know if I know anything more
- Rosalie Aprile: ok, take care sweetheart, bye
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [during her therapy session] The woman is fifty years old: sometimes I just want to scream in her face "Quit whining, no wonder he left you." Her supervisor looks at her cross-eyed and I get a call at three o'clock in the morning, she wants to talk about her father laughed at her when she fell off her bicycle when she was seven
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Does she call your emergency number?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [irritated] No, that's not the point: these fucking interruptions. I was raped
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: When you have feelings of your own, who was listening?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That's right damn it. I have to sit there and take care of these people hour after hour with all their problems and some of them are very real and very serious and I'm sorry I care, I really do but it's hard sometimes. I just wanna say "I hurt too"
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: Good, I'm sure, that's why your here
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [sighs] I'm sorry
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: No need to be sorry. You've been through such trauma, it takes tremendous strength of will and inner resource to "soldier" on you to do your work
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Thank you, I try, I really do. It's just... hard sometimes
- Dr. Elliot Kupferberg: And patient Soprano, how's all that?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: He offered to escort me to my car, I almost fell in his arms crying
- Junior Soprano: [referring to the authorities monitoring him] anybody see you come in?
- Tony Soprano: [jokingly] yeah
- Junior Soprano: fuck it, I don't give a shit anymore
- Tony Soprano: [points to the bag his carrying] I brought you some leftover turkey and stuffing
- Junior Soprano: keep it: everything goes through me and these drafts, I should be down in Boca
- Tony Soprano: [after entering the room, referring to the temperature] drafts? It's like the fuckin Amazon jungle in here. What's the thermostat say?
- Junior Soprano: [raises his voice, while wrapped in a blanket] don't touch it!
- Tony Soprano: alright, Jesus
- Tony Soprano: [sits down next to him on the couch] Grandpa. Did he ever work for somebody named Trillo? He owned a lumber yard?
- Junior Soprano: My father was a master stone mason. He never cut fuckin wood
- Tony Soprano: a contractor then, do garden apartments?
- Junior Soprano: there was somebody named Trillo, he had seven daughters, I can't remember. I thought you were gonna ask my advice about Ralph Cifaretto?
- Tony Soprano: got any thoughts?
- Tony Soprano: what else do I have left? Real contretemps you have on your hands here: a good kid but you never should've put Gigi in there
- Tony Soprano: his strong, good earner, well respected
- Junior Soprano: not by that crew and that means the guy coming is over on the "butt end", they don't trust him: they undermine him. On top of that, you got Ralph pissing in their ears. Any day your gonna have a mutiny on your hands
- Tony Soprano: so, I take Gigi out, what kind of "message" does that send?
- Junior Soprano: that your indecisive and unsure of yourself
- Tony Soprano: exactly, who the fuck do I replace him with anyway?
- Junior Soprano: all good questions
- Tony Soprano: what's the fuckin answer?
- Junior Soprano: who says there is one? That's what being a boss is. You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes its smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks. In the meantime, you find your pleasures where you can
- Johnny Sack: Ralph Cifaretto came by
- Tony Soprano: [Jokingly] Yeah, what'd he want? A fully fueled jet and a safe trip to the Pope?
- Johnny Sack: His running scared since you canceled Thanksgiving dinner
- Tony Soprano: [Quoting Sun Tzu] If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him
- Johnny Sack: He wants to apologize
- Tony Soprano: Oh really?
- Johnny Sack: Would that put this to rest?
- Tony Soprano: If it's sincere it might relieve me of a very unpleasant decision
- Johnny Sack: You know we're about to break ground on the Esplanade, we're talking about millions of dollars here, it wouldn't hurt either of us to have a point man that feels appreciated. I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt to throw him a bone
- Tony Soprano: Like what?
- Johnny Sack: Capo?
- Tony Soprano: No fuckin way. Never. You heard what he did the poor girl, she just had a twentieth birthday
- Johnny Sack: Capo is what he mentioned. I threw cold water on it right away but she was a whore
- Tony Soprano: You know I don't want to talk about that situation again with anybody, you understand me?
- Johnny Sack: It was just a suggestion, keep a happy shop
- Tony Soprano: Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't you say you weren't going to stick your beak in?
- Johnny Sack: Can't two friends talk?