James Gandolfini credited as playing...
Tony Soprano
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Hey, Tone. Remember when we all rented that house down the Shore? With the bedbugs? Heh, heh.
- Tony Soprano: [nods]
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: Summer of '78. Carlo, Silvio, Frankie Napoli.
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Place up the beach. Sonny Spits from the Bronx rented it? That's where that hippie kid "mysteriously" drowned during that party. Heh, heh.
- Tony Soprano: [glares at Paulie]
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: Hey, Tony. You OK?
- Tony Soprano: Yeah, yeah.
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You sure, T? You're being kinda quiet.
- Tony Soprano: Well, it's 'cause, uh, "remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.
- Tony Soprano: [gets up and leaves]
- Tony Soprano: You know, no offense but you ever had yourself checked for Tourette's?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: What?
- Tony Soprano: Tourette's Syndrome. Seriously. "Heh, heh. Heh, heh." Maybe you got a tic or somethin'?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I don't know. Like some people grind their teeth. When I'm nervous, tense or somethin'.
- Anika: How do you know Peter?
- Tony Soprano: Who Peter? Beansie? An old friend from the neighborhood.
- Anika: So the other guy, the one with the white hair thingies, what's his name again?
- Tony Soprano: Paulie.
- [grimaces]
- Anika: Right. What is he, like, your best friend?
- Tony Soprano: He say that?
- Anika: I just figured the way he was talking. Honestly, I thought he was your dad at first.
- Tony Soprano: There was a time when I wished he was. He used to work for my dad.
- Anika: I know he told me.
- Tony Soprano: [looks angry]
- Tony Soprano: [Referring to Paulie] you should've seen him out there, he could handle himself his got the balls of twenty year old, his my friend but can't stop, his such a bladder mouth, he asks me not tell anyone about his prostate I say "sure" then he tells everybody
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: He was always like that, You forgot, one time I fell asleep while he was on the phone, I wake up twenty minutes later and he was still going
- Tony Soprano: I've got to say, it concerns me lately
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: People live alone and they get like that it's sad
- Tony Soprano: [Referring to Beanie's wife] you married a good woman the way she stood by you?
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: That's what Paulie doesn't have and I'm speaking to your point, his got no wife and no kids
- Tony Soprano: His got so steady income stream either, except for Barone which is coming to an end, I told him if you can't legitimate income your vulnerable to the Feds he don't do shit about it
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: I think you're worrying for nothing
- Tony Soprano: Things are going great finally, maybe I'm just waiting "for the other shoe to drop"
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: All I know is Paulie Gualtieri is a standup guy
- Tony Soprano: Has he been ever to the test? He had this painting in his house, I was all dressed up as a general
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: [laughing] I heard about that
- Tony Soprano: It pissed me off I thought it was a fucking joke but now I don't think it was
- Peter 'Beansie' Gaeta: He loves Tony, your all his got, you, the guys, and his image
- Tony Soprano: I love him too
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [while watching the FBI excavate the basement of the location where Tony carried out his first hit] Danny says he hears its Larry Barese's been talking. A lot of work for a dead fuckin bookie. You made "your bones" with that kid huh?
- Tony Soprano: Yeah
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Old Zeepa Pean's house: you were shaky a little but you did good. I remember telling you your old man. Twenty-five years T, its possible there's nothing left
- Tony Soprano: There'd be bones, teeth
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: What're we going to do?
- Tony Soprano: [Implying they're going to leave town until the attention and heat passes] we're going to pack our toothbrushes
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: this is nice, huh? A little road trip, just you and me: all things considered of course
- Tony Soprano: just like the old days
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [referring to the first person Tony killed] Willie fuckin Overall. After all these years...
- Tony Soprano: yeah
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I remember driving around with that prick in the trunk looking for a spot. What was it like, a week before AJ was born, right?
- Tony Soprano: no, Meadow
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: nice she's gonna be a doctor
- Tony Soprano: yeah
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: remember we took you to Lugers after? Me, Puss, Ralphie?
- Tony Soprano: [while on a fishing boat] What, you're not hungry?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: My fuckin stomach
- Tony Soprano: When you went down below, I thought I saw a whale
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: No shit
- Tony Soprano: Made me think of Ginny Sack
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [amused] Heh
- Tony Soprano: That joke Ralph made about her, that was some funny shit: gotta have a sense of humor, right?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Yeah
- Tony Soprano: I heard she took some office job, selling insurance. It was you who told him, right? It's no big deal, I can hardly resist
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Grapevine, I don't know
- Tony Soprano: yeah
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: He was a funny prick, that Ralph, Gladiator fixation, the time he hit Georgie in the eye with the chain
- Tony Soprano: I would've loved to see John's face when he heard that crack. Always holier than now because he didn't fuck other women
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [while in the restaurant inside a hotel] Your dad, boy, him and me made this trip a thousand times back in the sixties
- Tony Soprano: He had a "piece" of that dog track, right?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Among other things. This one time, my first trip ever, we're going through Georgia, his got a fifty-nine Eldorado, with the fins
- Tony Soprano: With the Biarritz, he used to let me steer
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I'm like twenty at the time, I'm a kid, never been five miles out of Newark. Anyway, I'm driving, we get pulled over, state trooper with the hat and fuckin sunglasses. I got no driver's license
- Tony Soprano: [amused] Of course not
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I'm shitting a brick. This is the deep fuckin south we're in and we're Italian, I turn to your dad "What do I tell this prick? "Relax", he says, tell him "Your cousin's on the job", gives me a southern sounding name, guy comes over, "My cousin's a state trooper too", I tell him. "Maybe you know him?" "What's his name? Barney Fife, the prick gives me a shot, I don't know what the fuck hit me, your dad's pissing himself. I mean, I never watch TV, how the fuck do I know, right?
- Tony Soprano: So, what happened?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Your dad had to "duke" the guy a hundred fuckin dollars, probably a month's salary in those days
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You know I remember you around that time, when I was bad, my dad used to threaten me with he was gonna get uncle Paulie to come "get" me
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [chuckles] Fuckin Johnny Boy, huh? He loved you, my friend. I remember the night you were born, only time I ever saw him cry
- Tony Soprano: It's funny, you know, I never knew where I stood with him, like he didn't believe in me or something?
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: You fuckin kidding? He trusted you enough to give you the Willie Overall thing, you were what? Twenty-four?
- Tony Soprano: twenty-two
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: So, there you go then