Vincent Pastore credited as playing...
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [Tony is having a fever dream where Pussy is a fish on ice at a food market] How much you weigh?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Eight pounds.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Lost a lot of weight!
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Swimmin'! The best exercise. Works every muscle group.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Get the fuck outta here! You never exercised once in your life!
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Anyway, $4 a pound.
- [pause]
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: You know I've been working with the government, right, Ton'?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Don't say it.
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: C'mon, Ton'. Sooner or later, you gotta face facts.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I don't want to hear it.
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Well you're *gonna* hear it.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [dejectedly] Fuck.
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: You passed me over for promotion, Ton'. You knew.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: How much shit you give 'em?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: A lot.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Jesus, Puss.
- [pause]
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Fuck of a way for it all to end, huh?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Yeah.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Yeah.
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: [referring to the fish lying next to him] These guys, on either side of me... they're asleep.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Don't say that! Not fuckin' funny!
- [angrily turns over the table and knocks all the fish to the ground]
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: We got any good tequila? You know that acupuncturist down in Puerto Rico? 26... Tell you, this broad, her ass was the second coming. Never wore panties. Brushed her teeth with this shit. Every night she'd drink me under the fucking table. And I'd eat her out when I was down there.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Hey, Puss. Did she even really exist?
- Skip Lipari: [meeting privately, referring to meeting with Tony] how'd it go?
- Skip Lipari: [after Pussy hands him an audiotape of the wiretap his been recording] was Sundeep there?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: yeah
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: [before handing him a white envelope full of money] my whole cut
- Skip Lipari: [handing him a small amount of money from the same envelope] here
- Skip Lipari: [when Pussy rolls his eyes and shakes his head after looking at the small amount of cash] what's the matter?
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: what's the matter?
- Skip Lipari: [irritated] I know, Tony's your best friend
- Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: President Franklin is my best friend, and his in there
- Skip Lipari: look, some cooperators, when they finally get their new identity, they do pretty fuckin good. Some snitch I worked with became garbage commissioner of a good size city in Florida