The Sopranos (TV Series)

From Where to Eternity (2000)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

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• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Excuse me, let me tell you something... When America opened up the floodgates and let all us Italians in, what do you think they were doing it for? 'Cause they were trying to save us from poverty? No, they did it because they needed us. They needed us to build their cities and dig their subways, and to make them richer. The Carnegies and The Rockerfellers: they needed worker bees and there we were. But some of us didn't want to swarm around their hive and lose who we were. We wanted to stay Italian and preserve the things that meant something to us: honor and family and loyalty... and some of us wanted a piece of the action. Now we weren't educated like the Americans, but we had the BALLS to take what we wanted! And those other folks, those other... the, the JP Morgans, they were crooks and killers too, but that was the business right? The American Way.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : That might all be true, but what do poor Itailian immigrants have to do with you and what happens every morning you step out of bed?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : What the fuck is this all of a sudden?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm just asking a question.

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Oh, so YOU'RE taking a stand now, huh? You pick HERE to make a stand? After all this time telling me that nothing's my fault, because of poor parenting. You pick now to act like Betsy "Fuckin'" Ross! When my nephew is in the fuckin' hospital! He might not get out!

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Alright so I used to cheat. I'm not getting "spayed", end of subject

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : You brought up the vasectomy and now you don't want to talk about it

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : You asked me what was going on

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I saw on the news about a gangland shooting

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Yeah

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Is that your nephew Christopher? That you've spoken of before? In the papers said his going to be critical condition

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : His going to be fine

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Have they found the person that shot him yet?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : No, have you?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm not trying to pry into that part of your life, I know our "deal" but I've heard you say before you love this young man

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Christopher was clinically dead for about a minute. He thinks he had one of those near death "experiences." He says he visited hell and "they" told him he'd be back permanent

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Who's "they"?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Its bullshit, it was a dream combined with the morphine and now he thinks his going to hell when he dies and his all fucked up over it

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Do you think he'll go to hell?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : No, his not the type that deserves hell

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Who do you think does?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : The worst people: the twisted and demented psychos who kill people for pleasure, the cannibals, the degenerate bastards that molest and torture little kids, kill babies, the Hitler's, the Pol Pots. Those are the fucks that deserve to die: not my nephew

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What about you?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : What? Hell? You've been listening to me? No, for the same reasons. We're soldiers; soldiers don't go to hell. Its war, soldiers kill other soldiers. We're in a "situation" where everybody involved knows the "stakes" and if you're going to accept those "stakes", you've got to do certain "things." It's business, we're soldiers. We follow codes: orders

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [referring to recent therapy session with Tony]  Was I insensitive? And perhaps did I do it deliberately? Do I hate him?

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : How often are you taking the Ativan?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Almost every night

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : And when else?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Sunday afternoon I took one: there's another "thing", I've... been drinking... alone

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : What aren't you telling me?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Part of it is that I'm afraid

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : Why did you agree to continue working with him?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : We've discussed this: I took him back because I felt it was an ethical and a professional responsibility to do so

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : I'm not... challenging your ability or professionalism or even your ethics

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Then what are you challenging?

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : What you hope to achieve with this man

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What you hope to achieve with me

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : No, that's a facile analogy

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm living in amoral never never Land with this patient: not wanting to judge but to treat but now I've judged. I took a position God damn it and I'm scared

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : I believe you