The Sopranos (TV Series)

Employee of the Month (2001)

Richard Romanus: Richard La Penna

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• Richard La Penna : [while they prepare dinner, jokingly, referring to Tony]  Didn't you see my favorite patient today?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Tomorrow

  Richard La Penna : How's that going?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [not wanting to talk about Tony]  Let's not

  Richard La Penna : [referring to stopping Tony's treatment then continuing his therapy sessions]  I still wished to Christ you hadn't taken him back

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [referring to their divorce and reconciling]  I took you back

  Richard La Penna : You think the synergy escapes me? You start treating him, we start seeing each other again. No, seriously...

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [interrupts him]  If you really wanna know, he had a real breakthrough last week

  Richard La Penna : [amused]  Breakthrough what? Somebody's jaw?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [sarcastically]  Your right, I'm wasting my time: better I should boycott with the National Italian American Foundation and save the world from... oh what is it this week?

  Richard La Penna : The very idea ABC would even think of producing that stereotypical goombah fest

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : We're the advertisement for the American experiment. We did great

  Richard La Penna : I'm so fed up with people assuming I'm a thug because my name ends in a vowel: undershirts, yelling, Hollywood tries to give these sociopaths a tragic grandeur of Al Pacino

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Condescend to me, it gets me so hot

  Richard La Penna : Tell me a little more about this breakthrough then. You yourself said this guy's an alexithymic: he said Nothing's gonna get through, not if it threatens that straw house his built inside his head to shelter his base criminality. It really concerns me you don't see this, I mean pink slip this guy: his dangerous

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm gonna pink slip you if you don't get that chicken in the oven