THE_SOPRANOS &AL LOCATIONS INTERIOR DR. MELFI’'S WAITING ROOM DR. OFFICE SOPRANO E. - KITCHEN SOPRANO HOUSE\ - FAMILY ROOM SOPRANO HOUSE -\ HALLWAY SOPRANO HOUSE - PRNTRY SOPRANO HOUSE - OW’S ROOM SOPRANO HOUSE - BEDROQM BUCCO’S VESUVIO . BUCCO’S VESUVIO - KITCHE LIVIA’S HOUSE CHRIS’ CAR MRI CENTER - MRI MACHINE ROOM THE PORK STORE THE PORK STORE - BUTCHERING AIRPORT AREA TOPLESS BAR GREEN GROVE RETIREMENT CO IL GRANAIO CABIN CRUISER - BELOW DECKS CABIN CRUISER - TOP APARTMENT BEDROOM CATHEDRAL ) JUNIOR’S LINCOLN SOPRANO HOUSE - GARAGE GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) EXTERIOR SOPRANO HOUS, STREET/- US/HMO * PARKING LOT THE PORK STORE VESUVIO //ELM PARKWAY/LIVIA’S HOUSE / CONSTRUCTION SITE STATE PARK PITCH ‘M’ PUTT BARONE SANITATION MANHATTAN IL GRANAIO MARINA R CITY PAROCHIAL SCHOOL CATHEDRAL PLASTIC MOUND PAROCHYAL SCH. BALL COURT *

THE SOPRANOS FADE IN: GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) THE SOPRANOS INT. DR. MELFI'S WAITING ROOM = DAY THOMAS SOPRANO, 40, sits and waits. Uneasily. Staring confusedly at a vaguely erotic Klimpt reproduction. opens. DR. JENNIFER MELFI (attractive, 35) appears. MELFI Mr. Soprano? INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY Melfi gestures Tommy to a choice of seating. She seats herself in a facing armchair. MELFI Have a seat. Inner door She looks at him with a polite, expectant gaze. He stares back, waiting. There is utter silence. Nothing happens. Such is psychotherapy. MELFI My understanding from your €amily physician, Dr. Cusamano, is you collapsed? Were unable to breathe? Possibly a panic attack? TOMMY They said it was a panic attack -- because all the neurological work and blood came back negative. They sent me here. MELFI You don't agree you had a panic attack? He laughs -- too loud. MELFI How are you feeling now? TOMMY Now? Fine. I'm back at work. What line of work are you in? TOMMY Waste management consultant. Finally. -- *

THE SOPRANOS " GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) SR She keeps that psychiatric poker-face. Yet there was a reaction. After silence... TOMMY Look...it's impossible for me to talk to a

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 2%, MELFI Any thoughts at all on why you blacked out? . Tommy shrugs. Fidgets. - I don't know. Stress, maybe? MELFI * Stress? About what? * 3 3 the first rays over the post-industrial landscape. * TOMMY (V.O0.) Well, I once heard some guy use this expression, 'The sun setting over the empire...?' & 4 EXT. SOPRANO HOUSE - DAWN 4 split-level. New Jersey. The only thing distinguishing it from its neighbors is high security fencing and mercury vapor lamps that make the lawn bricht enough for night bsseball. A sensor reels the dawn's rays and the lamps switch off and -- 5 INT. SOPRANO HOUSE -~ BEDROOM - DAWN 5 TOMMY'S EYE slams open from sleep. He stares soberly up at the ceiling. TOMMY (V.O0.) That morning of the day I oot sick? I'd been thinking: it's good to be in a thing from the ground floor. I came too late for that, I know. But lately I'm getting the feeling I might be in at the end. That the best is over. * 6 EXT. SOPRANO. HOUSE - DAY 6 Bathrobed Tommy reads his morning paper in the gated driveway: CLINTON WARNS MEDICARE COULD BE BANKRUPT BY YEAR 2000. Tommy * goes to the Sports, ambles down the driveway. . MELFI (V.0.) Many Americans, I think, feel this. *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 3. TOMMY (V.O.) Take my father. He never reached the heights like me. But in ways he had it better. He had his people -- they had their standards. They had pride. Today what do we got? MELFI (V.O.) Did you have this feeling of loss more acutely in the hours before you collapsed? . 7 EXT. SOPRANO BACKYARD - DAY 7 An expanse of lawn, then a pool with Tropitone furniture. Tommy gathers speed, excited. But reaching the pool, he looks around, worried. The water is like glass. The morning is too still. TOMMY (V.0.) I dunno. Couple months before all this these two wild ducks had landed in.my pool. Amazing. From Canada or someplace, I don't know. It was mating season. DUCK FAMILY wild mallards, mother and babies, comes waddling from the bushes, QUACKING. Tommy beams, takes feed from a bin and drops down on both knees. He feeds them. TOMMY Yum. Yum. 8 INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY CARMELA SOPRANO (mid 30's), in bathrobe, makes breakfast for her xids.. She is a dark-eyed, dark-haired, pretty woman with blonde hi-lites. Hi-lites and nails are a priority. At the table are MEADOW SOPRANO, 15, and her friend, HUNTER SCANGARELO. TOMMY (V.O.) My daughter's friend was there to drive my daughter, Meadow, to school. HUNTER (staring out window) Meadow, your father with thpse ducks. CARMELA Have something more than just cran- apple juice, ladies. You need brain food for school. * * *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) TOMMY JR. enters. He's thirteen. He sits, starts spooning cereal in. Carmela smooches him. Everyone ad-libs happy birthdays. He acknowledges, his mouth crammed with food. HUNTER The male and femdle duck just made a home in your pool and 'did it'? Weird. CARMELA (crosses with pastry) - Girls, you want some of sfogliatell'? last night's MEADOW Get out of here with that fat. CARMELA Oh, have a bite. MEADOW Wait -- like Italian pastry is brain food? HUNTER Bon Jovi? Hello? They laugh. Tommy Jr.'s hand goes in the box; he dunks the Italian pastry in his cereal milk and eats. The girls 'ee—ew'. HUNTER How do you stay so skinny, Mrs. Soprano? Carmela isn't listening. She is staring out somberly. CARMELA Him. With those ducks. 9 EXT. SOPRANO BACKYARD - POOL - DAY Tommy has waded into the pool to ad he has constructed for the ducks. he doesn't care. He talks to the di TOMMY just a plywood launching ramp His robe floats on the water; ucks. Don't you worry. 1I'll make you a better ramp. The ducklings suddenly furiously fl flight, following le TOMMY Kids! Come here! ap tneir wings in proto- ad.

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 10 INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY TOMMY (V.O.) Hey, kids! The teenagers trudge dutifully to the door. 10A EXT. SOPRANO BACKYARD - POOL - DAY TOMMY Look! They're trying to fly. (bored, humoring) Nice, dad. National Geographic. [ETC] They go back inside. 10B INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY HUNTER It is so cool you're going to be able to come to Aspen with my family at Christmas. Last year at Aspen? I saw Skeet Ulrich. As close as from where you're sitting. MEADOW - Omigod. 10C INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY TOMMY My wife feels this friend of Meacow's is a bad influence. 10D INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY CARMELA Miss Meadow, we made a deal -- you keep your school grades up and you keep your curfew between now and Christmas -- then you get go. MEADOW (edge) I know that. Tommy enters, robe gone, his lower torso wrapped in a beach towel. - He claps Tommy Jr. on the back. 10 10A 10B 10C * * 10D

11 12 THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 6%, TOMMY Happy birthday, son. He runs his hand on Carmela's butt, but she seems not to notice. So he starts slap fighting with Tommy Jr. CARMELA You're going to be home tonight for Tommy Jr.'s party, right? (to his grunt) Birdman. Hello? Tommy is reaching for The Audubon Society "Master Guide to Birding" and getting engrossed. TOMMY I'1l get home from work early. CARMELA I wasn't talking about work. She moves off sullenly. As he watches her -- INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY Tommy -- in the present -- a strained silence. She stares. TOMMY This isn't going to work. I can't talk about my personal life. MELFI It's hard for everybody. TOMMY You don't understand. MELFI Finish telling me about the day you collapsed. INT. CHRIS' CAR - DAY Back to the past. Brand new Lexus 400. TOMMY (V.0.) I rode to work with my nephew, Christopher...he's learning the business. CHRIS MOLTISANTI (25) is in cool-ass cruise mode. Good looking -- almost pretty -- wears an earring, a Jersey Shark's ball cap. He is chuckling at Howard Stern on the radio. Tommy rides passenger, engrossed in his Audubon book. 11 12 * *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 6A% . Rust-belt New Jersey floats by: the Meadowlands -- mile after mile of marsh, iron bridges, and raw honking trucking. The skyline of Manhattan beckons from the distance. TOMMY (V.0.) He's an example of what I was saying before --

13 14 THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) T*. TOMMY You call whatsisname at Triboro Towers about the hauling contract? CHRIS I got home too late last night. I didn't want to wake the man up. TOMMY You get up early this morning and call? He's always in the office at six. . CHRIS I was nauseous this morning. My mom told me I shouldn't even go in today. TOMMY (V.O.) Bear in mind, this is a kid who just bought himself a 60,000 dollar Lexus. They are now in a business district. Chris' head whips around. EXT. STREET - BUSINESS DISTRICT - US/HMO - DAY CHRIS It's that guy. Mahaffey. TOMMY Get out. CHRIS Back there. See? With the boo-boo in red? TOMMY Back up. ON MAHAFFEY a forty-four-year-old executive, walking with a YOUNG WOMAN, a secretary. They carry lattes and bagels. The Lexus pulls up. Tommy gets out -- INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY Tommy has stopped talking. TOMMY There was an issue of an outstanding loan -- 13 14 %*

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) MELFI Let me stop you a second. TOMMY Sure. MELFI | I have no idea where this story is going...but there are a few ethical ground rules we should quickly get out of the way. He waits. 'She smiles nervously. MELFI You said you were in waste management... TOMMY Recycle. The environment. MELFI Dr. Cusamano, besides being your family physician, is also your next door neighbor. See what I'm saying? TOMMY I get it. Yeah. MELFI (dry mouth) What you tell me in here falls under doctor/patient confidentiality. Except -- if I was, for example, to hear that a...say a...murder?...was about to take place -- (quickly) not that I'm saying -- but, if.. Well, anything like that...where a patient tells me someone is going to be hurt? I'm supposed to go to the authorities. Technically. TOMMY (long beat) Oh. MELFI 'I don't know what happened with this Mahaffey fellow. I'm just TOMMY I see. (beat) Nothing. We had coffee. *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 15 EXT. STREET - BUSINESS DISTRICT - US/HMO - DAY 15 * When Mahaffey sees Tommy, his latte spatters the sidewalk as he takes off running! Chris takes after him. THE PURSUIT Chris and Mahaffey burn up the sidewalk. Bystanders peer curiously. Tommy calmly gets behind the Lexus wheel, makes a U-turn. Mahaffey runs toward a sleek five story office building, US/HMO. * He cuts across the lawn making for the front entrance. MAHAFFEY Security! Chris closes, grabs him by his neck, tries to swing him to the ground. Chris loses his footing on thg slippery grass and Mahaffey twirls free. But Chris is now between him and the door:; Mahaffey cuts for the parking lot, panting, full out, grabbing in his pocket for his car keys. Chris runs after him into the lot. 16 EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY 16 Tommy suddenly draws abreast of Chris in the Lex, gives a cheerful TOOT, then accelerates down the parking aisle. Mahaffey's legs churning. THE LEXUS deliberately clips Mahaffey. He hurtles over the car about thirty feet, crashes to the ground. Tommy calmly gets out. MAHAFFEY My leg! 1It's broken! Oh fuck, oh fuck, the bone's coming through! Tommy starts punching him in the face briskly and efficiently. TOMMY {punching) I'11 give you a fuckin' bone. Where's my money? The secretary comes up, watches in horror. One of the Lexus' headlights hangs by its wires and Chris broken-heartedly tries to put it back in. - -—MAHAFFEY "7 I'11 get the money!

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 10. TOMMY (punching, but tiring) I know you'll get the -- (sees Chris fussing over car) The fuck you doing? Get over here. Chris crosses, takes over the physical labor -- kicking Mahaffey in chest and stomach while Tommy catches his breath and picks up where he left off -- : TOMMY I know you'll get the money. What you ought to fuckin' get is a cork to put in your mouth. US/HMO employees watch from windows. TOMMY (as he and Chris kick in Mahaffey's ribs) Huh? You tell people I'm nothin' to worry about compared to who used to run things? MAHAFFEY I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Tommy heads back to the car. Chris' eyes rest on the eyes of Mahaffey's young, horrified secretary. Chris gets in the car. MAHAFFEY (screaming) My leg. Ohmigod! Fuck! TOMMY (sees US/HMO sign) HMO. What are you fuckin' crying about? At least you're covered. 17 INT. CHRIS' CAR - DAY 17 Chris drives. Tommy massages his knuckles. CHRIS What you thinking about? TOMMY HMO's. CHRIS Homos?

18 19 THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 11. TOMMY HMO! HMO! It's a medical care provider. Read a fuckin' paper once in a while, Christopher. INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY 18 Tommy and Melfi are looking at each otb2r in the psychiatric silence. MELFI So you had coffee. TOMMY Right. MELFI Go on. - TOMMY Next? Let's see, I had a breakfast meeting. EXT. THE PORK STORE - DAY 19 Italian-American inner city neighborhocd; an Italian butcher shop with a plaster pig on top. At a little table out front under the Stella D'Oro umbrella sit Tommy, Chris, a large man, BIG PUSSY BONPENSIERO, PAT "PAULIE WALNUTS" GUALTIERI and trash hauling company owner DICK BARONE. A young butcher in a blood-stained apron serves BIG PUSSY BONPENSIERO should not be confused with LITTLE PUSSY MALANGA, of whom we shall learn more shortly. TOMMY So what's going on at Triboro Towers? BIG PUSSY The site manager wants to renew his contract with Dick. But this Kolar Sanitation... DICK BARONE Nationwide company. BIG PUSSY The Kolar brothers, they're some kind of Czechoslovakian immigrants or some shit -- -- these polacks'll haul the paper, plastic and aluminum for seventy-five thousand a month less than Dick.

20 THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) TOMMY So Kolar pays you the reqular forty times the monthly for stealing your stop. BIG PUSSY That's the thing -- he won't. Says if he could tell the Commie bosses back in Czechoslovakia to go fuck themselves, he can fuckin' tell us. . TOMMY Fucking garbage business. - BIG PUSSY I know. It's all changing. CHRIS Let me see what I can do. TOMMY You sure? You over your stomach ache? 12*, * * A black STS has pulled up and nattily dressed SILVIO DANTE heads for the Pork Store. Tommy spots him. All ad lib hellos all around. SILVIO Gabriella sends me down here for the gabagool. PAULIE WALNUTS Best in the area. SILVIO Tom, I'm thinking: did you go to elementary school with a guy named Artie Bucco? INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY TOMMY So this situation came up. It involves my uncle. I can't go into detail on this one. MELFI - (relieved) That's fine. TOMMY But I'll say this -- my uncle adds to my general stress level. 20 * ¥

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 21 BACK TO THE PORK STORE SILVIO Probably none of my but down at the the word is your Uncle Junior is going to whack Little Pussy Malanga... » 12A*, 21

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 13. 22 EXT. BUCCO'S VESUVIO - DAY 22 Chris' Lexus drives up to the restaurant. (V.O.) ..in your friend Artie Bucco's restaurant. 23 INT. BUCCO'S VESUVIO - DAY - 23 A cozy Italian eatery for politicans, wise-guys. Tommy and Chris stop at a booth ruled by Tommy's uncle, CORRADO "JUNIOR" SOPRANO, and other geriatric mobsters in cheap cardigan sweaters. Junior is smallish with coke-bottle lenses. His muscle, BEPPY, sits beside him. TOMMY (pats his neck) Uncle Jun', how you doing? JUNIOR (warm hug) I was just talking about you. Tommy Jr.'s birthday dinner tonight, right? TOMMY Don't buy him anything big. We overindulge him. Tommy and Chris move on to ARTHUR BUCCO -- an affable restaurateur Tommy's age. They hug. TOMMY Arthur! What's the word at land of a thousand clams? ARTHUR Jefe. CHARMAINE, Arthur's wife, watches sourly from the cash register. Tommy blows her a big kiss. He and Chris sit at a prime booth. CHRIS You know what that means for Arthur one of these old mutts gets wet in here? TOMMY Ruin his business. CHRIS You vetter sit down with your uncle.

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 14. TOMMY (V.O.) Uncle Junior is my father's brother. A good guy, but old now and crabby. He used to take me to Yankee games when I was a kid., love my uncle. 24 EXT. ELM PARKWAY/LIVIA'S HOUSE - DAY 24 A middle-class street of three-story clapboard homes. TOMMY (V.O.) At the same time, Uncle Junior also told our girl cousins I would never be a varsity athlete. I found out he'd said that and, frankly, it was a tremendous blow to my self-esteem. Chris waits in the Lexus as Tommy carries a Bose carton to a large three-story home, pats himself down for a key, RINGS bell. Presently... VOICE Who's there? TOMMY It's me, mom. VOICE Who are you? TOMMY Ma, open the door! VOICE Tommy? TOMMY Ma, open the door! Four locks operate, the door squeaks open a crack and Tommy's mother, LIVIA SOPRANO, warily peers out. Tommy enters. 25 INT. LIVIA'S HOUSE - DAY ' 25 TOMMY Jeez, ma, get some air in here. He flings open a window. Livia looks older than her sixty-nine years. She's wearing a housecoat and slippers. e : Did you lock the door behind.you?

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 15. TOMMY (wearily) Yes. LIVIA Somebody phoned me last night. After dark. TOMMY Who? LIVIA You think I'd answer the It was dark out. TOMMY . Ma, that I will never get. The phone is an auditory thing. Dark is an eye thing. Some people won't go out . after dark -- okay -- get jumped from the shadows -- but not answer the phone after dark? LIVIA Listen to him. He knows everything. You want some lunch? I got eggplant. TOMMY I just ate. She goes into the kitchen and starts fixing him food anyway. Tommy takes a new table-top CD player from the carton. TOMMY Know who I just saw? Uncle Junior. LIVIA That one. Think he ever comes tc see his sister-in-law? TOMMY Remember Artie Bucco? My friend in elementary school? LIVIA I still see his mother. She tells me he calls her every day. TOMMY (doesn't rise to the bait) Thing is...Uncle Junior...he's gonna make a problem for Arthur. It would impact on Arthur's livelihood.

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 16. LIVIA (eyes CD player) What's that? TOMMY CD player. P LIVIA (put upon) For who? For me? I don't want it. . TOMMY love music. All the old stuff's being reissued on CD, your favorites. (shows CDs) . Look...Connie Game'... He puts a CD on. Steam Heat from 'Pajama Game' fills the room. He tries to waltz her around. TOMMY Ma, you need something to occupy your mind. When dad died you were going to do all kinds of things -- LIVIA (tears up) He was a saint. TOMMY I know, but he's gone. You were going to do volunteer travel. You've done nothing. LIVIA Don't you tell me how to live. You shut up. TOMMY I worry about you. LIVIA Don't you start that nursing home again! TOMMY It is not a nursing home. How many times I have to say it? 1It's a ‘retirement community'. You're with active seniors your own age. They do things. They go places.

THE SOPRANOS He gets up. GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) LIVIA (crying) I've seen these women in these nursing homes. In these wheelchairs. Babbling like idiots. Eat your eggplant. TOMMY I told you I just ate lunch! Maybe you could talk to Uncle Jun' about Artie Bucco. He respects you... LIVIA If your uncle has business with Arthur -- then he knows what he's doing. TOMMY And I don't? LIVIA All T know is girls take better care of their mothers than sons. TOMMY I bought CDs for the broken record lady. I didn't drive my sisters out of state. Moves toward front door. TOMMY I expect to see you at Tommy Jr.'s dinner tonight with the baked ziti. LIVIA Only if someone picks me up and drives me home. I don't drive when they're predicting rain. A28 EXT. LIVIA'S HOUSE - DAY 26 OMITTED TOMMY You're a healthy girl. 1It's. good for you to drive. Use it or lose it. (kisses her on cheek) . I have to get back to work. LIVIA Sure. Run off. 26 * * * * * * * * ¥ ¥

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 17a*, 27 OMITTED 27 28 EXT. SOPRANO HOUSE - BACKYARD - DAY ' 28 Carmela has generated array of food, yet she still looks, as Chris once remarked, "eminently fuckable." Tommy is taking off his jacket, she hands him a platter of steaks and sausage. TOMMY (V.0.) . That night it was my son's birthday party. TOMMY Maybe I should go get my mother.

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 18. CARMELA No way. She's jerking your chain. She lets him kiss her. Just then -- FATHER PHIL You had a recipe for creme anglais all the time, Carmela. Rigut here in FATHER PHIL, thirtysomething priest, wanders out of the house carrying a cookbook, wearing an apron. Tommy immediately chills. FATHER PHIL Oh, hi, Tom. You like creme anglais? TOMMY You bless it, I'll eat it. TOMMY JR. (enters with portable phone) Grandma's not coming. She started crying and hung up. TOMMY She needs a purpose in life. CARMELA Your mother's tougher than you think. TOMMY JR. (bummed) No fucking ziti now? BOTH PARENTS (sharply) Hey! VOICE Where's everybody? A29 INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - HALLWAYS - DAY A29 Uncle Junior wanders, his eyes swimming in the thick lenses. He carries a huge birthday present and a wrinkled paper bag. JUNIOR I brung fresh arugala from my garden.

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 19. 29 EXT. SOPRANO BACKYARD - DAY 29 Tommy stands at a top-of-the-line barbeque kettle, lights fluid- soaked charcoal. Whoosh. He is moving the lighter fluid out of the way to make room wheh -- The duck family are all beating their wings ia the pool. CAMERA slows to dreamlike slo-mo as the mother levitates. The first duckling becomes airborne...then the second...then the others...they follow their mother up into the air. TOMMY watches with both joy and horror as they circle his yard once, then fly off forever, their QUACKS receding. TOMMY (V.O.) At first it felt like ginger ale in my skull. Suddenly Tommy's eyes roll, he clutches his head, crashes into the kettle. The lighter fluid can drops from his hand onto the coals. He falls to the grass. . Carmela and family rush out. CARMELA Oh, my God -- Silvio Dante and family, just arriving, react in alarm. Carmela is moving toward Tommy. Is driven back as the can of lighter fluid explodes -~ a ball of orange flame that completely destroys the kettle. Tommy, unconscious, has no awareness. Silvio grabs a fire extinguisher and starts shooting hot coals that have blown out of the grille. 30-31 OMITTED ) 30-31 32 INT. MRI CENTER - MRI MACHINE ROOM - DAY 32 The magnetic oracle hums. Tommy lies alone and naked on a tray, about to be served to the machine. TOMMY (V.0.) Dr. Cusamano put me in the hospital. I had every kind of test. A speaker in the room clicks on.

THE SOPRANOS No answer. YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 20. VOICE When you're in the machine, there's a microphone by your head if you get claustrophobia and have to come out. Only we suggest that you don't do that 'cause we'll: only have to start over again from the beginning. TOMMY Okay. Moments pass. Nothing happens. A door opens. TOMMY Carmela...? She brings a chair over from the wall. Sits beside him. Beat. CARMELA I thought maybe you'd want some company. TOMMY. (surprised) Thanks. Six-thirty in the morning? How are the kids? CARMELA Worried about you -- I tola Tommy Jr. we'd rain check his birthday. TOMMY Carm', you think I have a brain tumor? CARMELA Well, we'll find out. TOMMY (pissed off) What bedside manner. Very encouraging. CARMELA What are you gonna, not know? TOMMY We've had some good times, some good years. CARMELA Here he goes now with the nostalgia.

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 21. TOMMY What I'm saying -- no marriage is perfect. CARMELA But having that goomar' on the side helps. TOMMY I don't see her anymore, I told you. How do you think I like it, having that priest in my house all the time? CARMELA (eyes narrow) Don't even go there. Father is a spiritual mentor -- he's helping me to be a better Catholic. TOMMY We all have different needs. CARMELA What's different between you and me is you're going to Hell when you die. That about kills the conversation. The machine hums. A Lechnician enters and Tommy tenses up. Carmela unhesitatingly takes his hand. The technician gives Carmela prism eyeglasses which she places on Tommy. TOMMY'S POV a weird prism look ninety degrees past his own head that allows him to keep tenuous visual contact with Carmela as he goes into the machine. Carmela smooths his hair, says something loving. But the MRI machine makes its hellish hammering which drowns everything out and continues into -- INT. THE PORK STORE - NIGHT 33 Chris, alone, does a Kung Fu dance in the glow of the meat cases. TOMMY (V.O0.) My nephew, Christopher, was handling the garbage contract problem while I was in the hospital. On this here also you don't need to know the details.

34 AND 35 36 THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 22. A Ford van with KOLAR SANITATION on its door pulls up outside. EMIL KOLAR, 24, gets out. He comes to the Pork Store, knocks. The door is opened a crack by Chris. ‘CHRIS Yeah? KOLAR Emil. Kolar. Chris lets him in. The two cross to a door toward the rear -- CHRIS Money, hope this don't give you indigestion. It's private here like we need. To talk. This as they go into -- OMITTED 34 AND 35 INT. THE PORK STORE - BUTCHERING AREA - NIGHT 36 Lamb's heads, pig trotters, hanging carcasses. KOLAR In the Czech Republic, too, we love pork. You ever have our sausages? . CHRIS I thought the only sausages were italian and Jimmy Deans. See what you learn when you cross cultures and shit? KOLAR My Uncle Evzen doesn't know I came. But if we make any progress here tonight I will have to tell him. CHRIS We have to make progress, Email. We must stop the madness. The garbage business is changing. We're the younger generation. We have issues in common. KOLAR Emil.

THE SOPRANOS ’ YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 23. 37 CHRIS Where'd you go to high school? Poland. KOLAR (angry) ° I'm not Polish. CHRIS Well, what's Czechoslovakian? Isn't that a type of polack? KOLAR We came to this country when I was nine. I went to West Essex. CHRIS Yo, money. My cousin Anthony's school used to play you in football. He went to Boonton. KOLAR (impatient) Where's the...? CHRIS Ah, yes, the reason for the visit. He beckons Kolar to a table where lines of coke are arranged on 2 cleaver blade. CHRIS Taste the wares, Email. Kolar ‘takes the straw, leans over to dose. Chris places a Glock 9mm to the back of his head and fires. Kolar sprawls forward onto the butcher block. Chris fires three more times. One of the severed lamb's heads appears to be watching. Chris addresses it. CHRIS Can you see him yet? Has he arrived where you are? EXT. BUCCO'S VESUVIO - DAY 37 Couple of days later. Tommy, Uncle Junior and his bodyguard, and Beppy, a crony, emerge from the restaurant laughing, kidding. TOMMY (V.O.) doctors kept me hanging about the neurological tests. My Uncle Junior and I played a round of golf and then had lunch.

THE SOPRANOS GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) 24, MELFI (V.O.) In what way is your uncle a problem for you? Who do you think:you are? TOMMY The guy who says how things go is who I think I am. Artie's dinner business is nice upscale people from . the suburbs. Don't ruin his life. BEPPY Vesuvio is where Pussy feels safe! He's been eating there for years. TOMMY Kill him someplace else. JUNIOR You may run North Jersey, but you don't run your Uncle Junior -- how many fuckin' hours did I spend playing catch with you -- ? 38 OMITTED 39 SOPRANO HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT MELFI Why don't we...move off your uncle and onto your more significant others. TOMMY (V.O.) My wife and my daughter were also not getting along and somehow this always trickles down to me. Father Phil is in the cushions with his feet up, wiggling his toes. "Field of Dreams" is on TV. Carmela enters with buttered popcorn. . FATHER PHIL Darn but these laser disks are ) CARMELA Tommy watches 'Godfather 2' all the He says the camera work looks just as good as in the movie theater. *

THE SOPRANOS SALMON (REV. 8/25/87) 24*, MELFI (V.0.) In what way is your uncle a problem for you? JUNIOR Who do you think ‘you are? TOMMY The guy who says how things go is who I think I am. Artie's dinner business is nice upscale people from -.the suburbs. Don't ruin his 1life. BEPPY : Vesuvio is where Pussy feels safe! He's been eating there for years. TOMMY Kill him someplace else. JUNIOR You may- run North Jersey, but you don’t. run your Uncle =-- how many fuckin' hours did I spend playing catch with you -- ?2 38 OMITTED 39 INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - FAMILY ROOM - NIGHT MELFI (V.0.) You keep bringing up this uacle. What about your immediate ramily? They're more important to the work here. TOMMY (V.O.) (sighs) My wife and daughter aren't getting along. Father Phil is sunk deep in the cushions with his feet up, wiggling his toes. "Field of Dreams" is on TV. Carmela enters with buttered popcorn. FATHER PHIL Darn but these laser disks are incredible. . CARMELA time. He says the camera work looks just as good as in the movie- theater. * * *

40 41 THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 25%, FATHER PHIL Where does Tom rank 'Goodfellas'? They hear a SOUND on the roof. FATHER. PHIL You have raccoons? CARMELA Too heavy. Someone's walking! She looks .out the window. The lawn is empty and iridescent green in the mercury lamps. The NOISE happens again. Carmela reaches up into a closet, comes out with an AK-47. Loads and locks. FATHER PHIL Jeez Louise... INT. GARAGE - NIGHT 40 Carmela comes downstairs into garage. Father pads behind in Birkenstocks. Carmela, gun ready, sees back door ajar. She tiptoes warily, edges along. Rounds corner and aims up at an intruder. EXT. SOPRANO BACKYARD - NIGHT 41 CARMELA Hold it! Someone trying to jimmy a window -- turas in fear. CARMELA Meadow...? A glaring security lamp behind Meadow makes Carmela shield her eyes. CARMELA What are you doing? Meadow is. also squinting into a bright light. MEADOW I noticed this glass rattles every time I walk to the laundry room. Do we have any...what do you call, putty? CARMELA (to Meadow) Don't give me that. You snuck out. * * % ok *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 26. TOMMY JR. (appears, casual) What's going on? MEADOW You locked my bedroom window on purpose so I'd get caught! CARMELA Normal people thought you were upstairs doing your homework. You're . becoming a master of lying and conniving. TOMMY JR. Right in front of Father. She lunges for Tommy Jr. FATHER PHIL Guys. Let's dial down the casting stones a few notches. MEADOW . (to Carmela) You're so strict about curfew I have to sneak out. CARMELA Don't start with me with what other parents allow. You're in the Soprano household. MEADOW . I know I'm grounded. But Patrick's swim meet is tomorrow and he needed me. CARMELA For this? Grounded? O©Oh, no. You're not going to Aspen with Hunter - Scangarelo -- that's where you're not going. Meadow's whole face falls in disbelief. She glares. MEADOW Okay, mom. (sobs; runs inside) If this is the way you want it... 42 INT. DR. - DAY TOMMY But, look, this shit I'm telling you, it'11 all blow over.

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) . MELFI Didn't you admit to Dr. Cusamano you were feeling depressed? - He doesn't want to answer. TOMMY Melfi. What part of The Boot, hon? MELFI My father's people were from Caserta. TOMMY (points to self) Avellino. My mother would have loved it if you and I had hooked up. He wonders why he said that. Clams up. MELFI Anxiety attacks are a legit-mate psychiatric emergency. Sugpose you were driving and passed out. TOMMY Let me tell you something -- today everybody goes to shrinks and counselors. Everybody goes on Sally Jesse Raphael and talks about their problems. (building anger) Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong silent type. That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do! (almost yelling) Unfortunately, what they didn't know was once they got Gary Coover in touch with his feelings, they wouldn't be able to shut him up! Dysfunction this! Dysfunction that! Dysfunction va fan cul'! MELFI You have strong feelings about this. TOMMY Let me tell you something -- I understand Freud. I had a semester and a half of college. So, sure, I get therapy as a concept. But in my world it doesn't go down. . He stares at her. 27. *

43 THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) TOMMY Could I be a little happier. Sure. Who couldn't? MELFI. Do you feel depressed? He averts his eyes. Admits. TOMMY Since the ducks left, I guess. MELFI The ducks that preceded your losing consciousness. Let's talk about them. He simply gets up and leaves. INT. AIRPORT AREA TOPLESS BAR - DAY Two NAKED DANCERS grind away on a small stage/riser to the beat Men hunch over draft beers watching the women with Tommy and Chris are at a back booth 70, whose bulk is swaddled in of- En Vogue. expressionless eyes. drinks with HERMAN "HESH" RABKIN, Filawear. HERMAN Mahaffey does not have the money. CHRIS What do you mean Mahaffey does not have the money? HERMAN Mahaffey does not have the money. CHRIS How could he not have the money? HERMAN The man does not have the money. CHRIS We ran over him w1th the car. T. himself -- HERMAN (shrugs) The man has no wiggle room. He is bled dry. A waitress sets down a round of drinks. 28.

THE SOPRANOS SALMON (REV. 8/25/87) HERMAN So I hear Junior wants to whack Pussy Bonpensiero? TOMMY Pussy Malanga. : HERMAN Oh, Little Pussy... TOMMY - Yeah, Little Pussy. You he's going to fuck with Big Pussy? My Pussy? Silvio Dante appears. SILVIO . . 4 Sandrine, this table, drinks on the house, all night. - . HERMAN Your uncle resents that you are boss. SILVIO The sadness acrues. HERMAN Junior's had a hard-on all his life -- first, that your father, his younger brother, was a made guy before him? Now you? So, sure, he can't you telling him wheat to do. TOMMY Yet I love him. HERMAN The man is driven in toto by his insecurities. He register the beef with New York? TOMMY 'He's got their okay on the hit. SILVIO (moving off) I feel bad I was the messenger. 29*. * *

THE SOPRANOS SALMON (REV. 8/25/97) 30%*. HERMAN Your friend with the restaurant -- send his sinuses to Arizona. (off Tommy's look) Get him out of town for three weeks. This way the restaurant closes. The hit has to go down somewhere else. TOMMY No wonder my old man relied on you, you fuckin' Jew. : HERMAN What about the fuckin' Jew's two fifty on Mahaffey's hundred. TOMMY : Mahaffey now has a business _partner. You. Every day these HMOs pay out millions in claims. Doctors, hospitals...a fuckin' MRI costs a grand a-pop. We give Mahaffey a choice -- he either has his company start paying out on phoney claims -- to fake clinics we set up -- or pays Hesh the two hundred and fifcy thousand he owes -- which we know he cannot do -- or it's a fuckin' rainy night in Lyndhurst. HERMAN That's very smart. This could be major. TOMMY -Could be as good as garbage. - CHRIS | (emotional) Garbage is. our bread and butter.. TOMMY Was. INT. GREEN GROVE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY - DAY Tommy, Carmela, the kids and Livia tour the facility. It resembles a hotel on Cap Ferrat. Well-dressed seniors read or hurry to various activities. Livia keeps knotting her hands. TOMMY _Wow, look at this, mom. *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) DIRECTOR (indicates library) Our lecture series in action -- today it's someone from the university, they're discussing the novels of -- I believe -~ Zord Neale Hurston. CARMELA Didn't you just read her in school, Med'? Nothing. .Cold freezeout. TOMMY JR. . This place is neat, grandma. You should really think about this. LIVIA What's going on behind there? DIRECTOR Those doors lead to our nursing unit. LIVIA This is a nursing home! DIRECTOR This is a residence, but just in case -- LIVIA You're not putting me in a nursing home! I've seen these women in these nursing homes, babbling like idiots! Residents look up. Tommy turns crimson. Tommy squints...blinks...can't breathe...steadies himself on a table. TOMMY You're not listening -- what the lady said was LIVIA (to director) You think you're pretty high and mighty here, don't you, with your fancy authors! LIVIA (to Tommy) People come here to die. If your father saw what you're doing... 31*. * k%

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) Then, crash, down he goes -- 45 EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE - NIGHT 31A*. The street is dark. A roll-away trash container is labelled KOLAR SANITATION. Chris' Lexus drives up, lights off. Chris and Big Pussy get out and go to the trunk. lid. Chris pops the 45

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) 32. They muscle Emil Kolar's body out. wrapped a plastic tarp. They carry Kolar toward the roll-away container. BIG PUSSY You can't blame T. for being pissed you whacked this ‘kid. You should have waited for me, Christopher. CHRIS Last time I show any fuckin' initiative. And then -- can you - imagine, Pussy, how I felt when T. runs down the garbage business. And I just fuckin' wet a guy to help hold on to one of our stops. B BIG PUSSY He's not running it down. 1It's just gettin' harder in New York. Sure T. wants to keep any contracts we got. CHRIS So. Kolar Sanitation'll finally get . the message. Ready? ' BIG PUSSY (stops, holds heart) Out of breath. CHRIS One...two... They start to swing the corpse by its hands and feet. CHRIS ...three! : They let the body go, but it doesn't achieve the twelve vertical feet needed to go into the open-topped container. Instead it goes CONK against the metal sidewall and flops to the street. BIG PUSSY Fuck. They pick it up again. CHRIS One...two...three! Up, up...CLONG. The head hits. It falls back into the street. BIG PUSSY ‘Let's just sit him up against it. * *

THE SOPRANOS GREEN (REV. 8/07/97) CHRIS . It's better if he's in it. BIG PUSSY What are you, fuckin' Michelangelo? Sit him up against it or I'm gonna get really pissed off here now. As they haul Kolar upright and try to prop him up -- BIG PUSSY - Wait a minute -- this is fucked up. CHRIS (pissed) What, Pussy? BIG PUSSY . The uncle's gonna find the kid dead on one of his bins and get out of our fuckin' business? CHRIS 'Louis Brassi sleeps with the fishes.' BIG PUSSY Luca Brassi. Luca. CHRIS Whatever. BIG PUSSY There's differences, Christopher, okay? From situation to situation. The Kolars know the kid is dead, it hardens their position. Plus, now the cops are looking for a fuckin' murderer. CHRIS (bored) Whatever. BIG PUSSY The kid disappears, never comes home, they know but they don't know. They hope maybe he'll turn up. IF. They start lugging the body back to the car. CHRIS Pussy, T. with these mental seizures or whatever. If he kept getting worse, what would you do? - 33*. *

THE SOPRANOS - GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) 34. BIG PUSSY I'm gonna tell you? Chris shrugs it off. 46 INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY’ Tommy sits with his face in his hands, unable to speak. MELFI So you've come back for help. Don't ‘look at that as a defeat. TOMMY You can't imagine the humiliation. Beautiful retirement center I'm gonna spend five thousand a month on and she's yelling and screaming like a cafone. MELFI For us baby boomers, dealing with our parents' aging is extremely painful. TOMMY . She's part of that generation raised in the Depression. But for her the Depression was a trip to Six Flags. MELFI . There's that 'D' word again. He slumps back in his chair. - MELFI Eighteen million Americans are clinically depressed. , TOMMY What's happened to society? Everything's broken down. MELFI We're not here to talk about society. We're here to talk about you. Stay with your mother. ’ TOMMY Now that my father's dead? He's a saint. When he was alive?

THE SOPRANOS GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) ’ 35 TOMMY (scoffs) My dad was tough. Ran his nwn crew. Guy like that and my mother wore him down to a little nub. He was a squeaking gerbil:when he died. MELFI Quite a formidable maternal presence. TOMMY - I might as well be honest -- I'm finding much of the satisfaction gone from my work, too. MELFI Why? Probably because of RICO. MELFI Is he your brother? TOMMY The RICO statutes. MELFI Oh...of course... Right. TOMMY You read the papers. How the Justice Department is using RICO and these legal strategies and electronic technology to squeeze our business. - MELFI . (sadly) Do you ever have any qualms about how you actually make your living? TOMMY I find I have to be the sad clown -- upbeat on the outside, crying on the inside. (beat) See, things are trending downward. Used to be, guy got pinched, he took his prison jolt no matter what. Everybody upheld the code of silence. (shakes head) . Nowadays? ' No values. Guys today have no room in their life for the experience. So you get all this turning government witness.

THE SOPRANOS GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) 35A MELFI (stymied) I see.

47 48 THE SOPRANOS GOLDENROD (REV. 8/19/97) TOMMY I feel exhausted just talking about it. MELFI Well -- ’ . (picks up prescription pad) . -- with today's pharmacology, no one needs to suffer with feelings of exhaustion or depression. TOMMY Here we go...here comes the Prozac. INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - PANTRY -~ DAY Carmela, in gold and diamond bracelets and white gloves, opens goes to a row of B&B Baked Beans cans. the bottom of one -- removes a wad of cash five inches thick, the door, peels off what she needs. INT. SOPRANO HOUSE - HALLWAY/MEADOW'S ROOM - DAY Carmela goes to a bedroom door and knocks. No response. bed. CARMELA Miss Meadow. Carmela pokes her head in revealing Meadow on her MEADOW I'm not going. CARMELA Every year on this date since you were itty-bitty, Mom and Meadow get all dolled up and drive to the Plaza for tea under Eloise's portrait. Look -- (waves white gloves) Where's yours? MEADOW I have too much homework. CARMELA (smile faltering) Med', it's our little tradition. We always have so much fun. She unscrews 47 48

THE SOPRANOS She goes to YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) MEADOW Tell you the truth, I've felt it was dumb since I was eight. I just go because you like it. desk, pecks at keys. CARMELA (hiding hurt) And here I thought it was something we'd do long after you were married. " With girls of your own. A silence. MEADOW Hopefully, I won't be living anywhere around here by then. ’ Broken by a merry computer voice. COMPUTER VOICE Check your mailbox! CARMELA Meadow, you can't lie and cheat and just break the rules you don't like. Meadow shoots her an amused cynical look. CARMELA What? 1Is there something you want to say? MEADOW Look, mom, do you have any idea how much it means to actually go skiing in Aspen? You think that's going to happen every year? Like lame tea and scones at the Plaza Hotel? CARMELA Good-bye. . MEADOW Close my door, please. 49 INT. BUCCO'S VESUVIO - KITCHEN - DAY Kitchen staff sweating over vats of pasta at the boil. hardest is Arthur Bucco. Tommy enters. Chris follows. TOMMY Listen, Artie, I wonder if you could help me out. 37. Toiling 49

THE SOPRANOS YELLOW (REV. 8/04/97) 38. ARTHUR (nervous smile) What? Tommy takes a packet from his pocket. Chris has helped himself to two meatballs and now sits eating daintily off a small plate. TOMMY Cruise -- Caribbean -- S.S. Sagafjord, 1lth through the 29th. Pair of tickets...I can't use them. Can you take them off my heds? ARTHUR (apprehensive) Where are they from? CHRIS Comps. ARTHUR What does that mean, 'comps?' TOMMY In my position as business agent for the Kitchen and Restaurant Workers Union, it's my responsibility to administer the dental plan. The dentists awarded us these in appreciation. Problem is, can't get away those dates. Arthur looks longingly at the tickets. TOMMY When's the last time you closed up and got away for a couple weeks? 50 INT. DR. MELFI'S OFFICE - DAY Melfi sits in her chair, waiting, in slatted light. The door to the waiting room is open. There's nobody there. The clock says 1:20. Melfi stares grimly out the window. 51 INT. BUCCO'S VESUVIO - NIGHT Arthur and Charmaine, bone weary, are closing up. CHARMAINE You can't accept a gift like that from Tommy Soprano.