Lorraine Bracco credited as playing...
Dr. Jennifer Melfi
- Tony Soprano: Well, here I am: back
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Yup
- Tony Soprano: So, let me ask you right off, is there any chance for a mercy fuck?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [Remains silent]
- Tony Soprano: I'm just kidding
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: How are you feeling?
- Tony Soprano: You went to medical school, a gunshot wound is everything they told you it was
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: And emotionally?
- Tony Soprano: I'm happy to be alive
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Have you spoken to your uncle since it happened?
- Tony Soprano: No, and I won't. I finally get to sleep on my own bed tonight. I got a hospital bed in the house for the last month and a half ago
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Is sleeping difficult?
- Tony Soprano: [Shakes his head] Tylenol helps
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What about dreams? Night terrors? Anything like that?
- Tony Soprano: Gloom is your business and business is good
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You were shot, Anthony by a member of your family
- Tony Soprano: I know
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: And unless I know absolutely nothing about what I'm doing, I think you and I have a lot to talk about. Are you familiar with the term Post Traumatic Stress?
- Tony Soprano: I get it ok? My uncle tried to kill me, for the second time. Three strikes and I'm out right? And who knows, maybe I am suppressing things but right now I feel each day is a gift, I told my sister that and that's how it's going to stay
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Just pick up where we left off before this all happened
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: AJ
- Tony Soprano: Believe it or not things got worse with that kid, flunked out of college. He waited until I was in a coma
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Didn't you leave Seaton Hall after a semester and a half?
- Tony Soprano: Alright fine why can't he copy some of the good things about me?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Does he have a job?
- Tony Soprano: Blockbuster: the first stop of the shit bird express
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: In some ways this shooting may have provided him an opportunity to learn from your mistakes
- Tony Soprano: My mistakes? I got caught up in domestic violence, you think it can't happen to you but it does
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: But I was referring to the bigger picture. The ready access to guns, the use of violence to solve disputes because of the nature of your work, your uncle's work
- Tony Soprano: I told you I didn't want to talk about my uncle
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Fine, but for now is it safe to say there are worse ways to earn money than by stocking shelves at Blockbuster?
- Tony Soprano: Yeah, there are
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [referring to when security conducted a search on him at John Sacrimoni's daughter's wedding] The point is they made me take off my shoes. I nearly passed out in front of everybody trying to bend over
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That's not good
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: People misinterpret. When they think your weak, they see an opportunity. They're my friends a lot of them but their also fuckin jackals
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Alpha male
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: It's subtle but since I've been back, I've been noticing certain "looks", people questioning my judgement when they never did before
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [referring to the idiom] When the Cat's Away, the Mice Will Play, bad habits set in
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: In the perfect world, let them think whatever the fuck they want
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [referring to the aphorism] Act as if
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: [when Tony looks confused] As if you're not feeling vulnerable, as if you're the same old Anthony, strong and decisive. People only see what you "allow" them to see
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Yeah, I've been thinking the same thing, thanks for the advice
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Glad to be of service