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James Gandolfini in The Sopranos (1999)

Steven Van Zandt: Silvio Dante

The Blue Comet

The Sopranos

Steven Van Zandt credited as playing...

Silvio Dante

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  • Tony Soprano: [referring to attacking Phil's crime family] We gotta hit first
  • Tony Soprano: [referring to agent Harris giving him information on Phil Leotardo] This hooked up tells me all the information I got that this cocksucker already has a target on my back
  • Silvio Dante: It's a big move
  • Tony Soprano: [asking Bobby for his opinion] So?
  • Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: When he stuck you with the tab on Vito Jr., I said let it go. Obviously, truth is, a fuck like Phil, appeasement don't work
  • Tony Soprano: Where the fuck you been?
  • Silvio Dante: [Before handing him a glass of liquor] I had some shit I had to take care of, your going to want a "snort"
  • Tony Soprano: Come on, I just finished my Bialy
  • Silvio Dante: Take it. Burt Gervasi, his gone
  • Tony Soprano: What happened?
  • Silvio Dante: I didn't want to overload you with AJ in the hospital
  • Tony Soprano: I don't want to hear that: go
  • Silvio Dante: Burt let me know the other night his been playing both sides of the fence with New York
  • Tony Soprano: [Surprised] Burt?
  • Silvio Dante: [as Tony notices a bandage on Sil's right hand] measures were taken. Burt wasn't speaking for just himself. The guys are getting squeezed hard to sway them to new management
  • Tony Soprano: And they thought you'd be part of it?
  • Silvio Dante: And he got an answer. My hope is now Phil's got the message and talk this shit through
  • Tony Soprano: Talk?
  • Silvio Dante: [talking privately, referring to Paulie's failed attempt to kill Phil Leotardo] Bad news, Paulie says he wants it known it's on him: he takes full responsibility
  • Tony Soprano: Shit
  • Silvio Dante: Yeah, nobody, I mean nobody knows where the fuck Phil is, four or five days now
  • Tony Soprano: So, we never really had a shot at him?
  • Tony Soprano: [while Sil shakes his head] What about the house in Florida?
  • Silvio Dante: [referring to their mob associate Beansie Gaeta] Beans said he had somebody passed by: the house is all shuttered up
  • Tony Soprano: He put everything in place. He moves on us, goes into hiding, and waits it out
  • Silvio Dante: "Going through ground" they call it
  • Tony Soprano: [confused] Who?
  • Silvio Dante: It's an expression
  • Tony Soprano: Who the fuck knows what his got planned exactly. You get word to everybody, eyes in the back of your heads, break routines, collections, all that shit
  • Tony Soprano: [sternly] You tell everybody
  • Silvio Dante: [nods] Got it
  • Tony Soprano: [referring to his location] In the meantime, we keep trying, get a "20" on Phil
  • Silvio Dante: [after Bobby tells Paulie Sil wants to see him in the back office in the Bada Bing strip club] Have a seat
  • Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: What's up?
  • Silvio Dante: [referring to telling Corky Caporale to hire the assassins from Italy] Phil Leotardo: The call's been made to the zips coming from Naples, you contact the guy to contact the guys
  • Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: Phil's at his Comare's every Friday night
  • Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [referring to Tony, to Sil] T know about this?
  • Silvio Dante: [surprised his question] What?
  • Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri: What kind of question is that?
  • Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [to Bobby] Watch your fat fuckin mouth!
  • Silvio Dante: [to Bobby and Paulie as they stand up to physically confront each other] Whoa, whoa, whoa
  • Silvio Dante: What're you concerned about?
  • Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [referring to the war between the Gallo and Columbo crime families] I lived through the seventies by the skin of my nuts when the Colombo's were going at it: There ain't a bigger cocksucker than Phil Leotardo. I just wanna make sure somebody knows there could be a line to Cozzarelli's a mile long
  • Silvio Dante: [irritated] Duly noted, so there's no problem, then?

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