Remember When (The Sopranos episode)
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"Remember When" is the 80th episode of the
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The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...
'', the third episode of the second half of the show's sixth season, and the 15th episode of the season overall. Written by Terence Winter and directed by Phil Abraham, it originally aired on April 22, 2007, and was watched by 6.85 million viewers on its premiere.


Starring

* James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano * Lorraine Bracco as
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* * Edie Falco as
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* Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti * Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. * Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante * Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri * Robert Iler as
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* * Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano * * Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri * *
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as Bobby Baccalieri * Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo ''* = credit only''


Guest starring

* Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin


Also guest starring


Synopsis

The FBI recovers the body of bookie Willie Overall Tony's first murder based on information from Soprano family capo
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. Tony and Paulie drive to Miami to lay low until the heat is off. On the way down, Tony asks Paulie how
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heard about Ralphie's
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about his wife the incident which nearly led to hostilities between the Soprano and Lupertazzi families but Paulie says he does not know. While Paulie was Tony's role model growing up, Tony now doubts his loyalty and usefulness. In Miami, the two men meet Beansie's Cuban contacts and agree to trade in stolen goods. Tony also arranges a bridge loan of $200,000 from
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to cover a string of losing sports bets. Larry tells the FBI that the late
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killed Overall. Upon receiving this news, Tony rents a sport fishing boat to celebrate with Paulie. However, Paulie is uneasy as he remembers the killing of
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on a boat. On the open sea, Tony questions Paulie again about the joke leak; Paulie again denies involvement. Tony glances at a hatchet and some fishing knives, but the tension passes. That night, Paulie has a dream in which he sees Pussy and asks him in a panic, "Tell me, when my time comes--will I stand up?" When they return to New Jersey, Paulie sends Tony and Carmela a $2,000 espresso machine. When she wonders why, Tony explains that they owe their lifestyle to the hard work of people like Paulie. In New York City, Faustino "Doc" Santoro and his bodyguard are murdered in a hit arranged by
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, who becomes the new
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of the Lupertazzi family. Junior is visited at his mental care center by his former soldiers Pat Blundetto and Beppy Scerbo. Junior begs them to aid his escape but soon loses his resolve. He returns to his old mob habits,
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an orderly and organizing an illicit
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game for other patients. Professor Lynch, a patient Junior teases, informs on him and the game is ended. Junior finds an admiring follower in a young patient named Carter Chong, who has been institutionalized for his anger issues. Junior assaults Professor Lynch and is given a new regimen of sedatives. Carter devises a plan to distract the orderlies handing the pills to Junior so that he can covertly throw them away. Some of the drugs were meant to combat Junior's
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, and he soon humiliatingly wets himself. The orderly is fired for taking bribes and Junior is threatened with a transfer to a less pleasant, state-run facility if he does not take his medications. He complies with the treatment, much to Carter's disillusionment. Junior tries to make up with him, but calls him "Anthony." At a piano recital, Carter starts throwing paper balls at the pianist; when Junior shows disapproval, Carter becomes enraged and ferociously attacks him. Junior is next seen with the other patients (though not Carter) receiving animal-assisted therapy in the garden. He is in a wheelchair, with one arm in a cast, apart from the others.


Deceased

* Willie Overall: A bookie shot dead by Tony Soprano with a revolver on orders from "Johnny Boy" Soprano. It was Tony's very first murder at the age of 22 (shown in a flashback to 1982). * Faustino "Doc" Santoro: killed after leaving a massage parlor in New York City by multiple gunshots from a trio of gunmen on orders from Phil Leotardo to take over his Lupertazzi crime family boss's title and/or as a revenge for the Gerry Torciano murder and/or as payback for his insults done to Phil. * Unnamed Bodyguard: killed alongside "Doc" Santoro.


Production

* "Remember When" was the career directorial debut of Phil Abraham, a longtime ''Sopranos'' cinematographer ever since the first season of the show. Abraham initially started only as a camera operator for the TV series. * Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer and future star of ''
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'' and '' In the Heights'', makes a brief appearance in this episode as the bellman with whom Tony and Paulie briefly converse from the car. It was Miranda's first television acting role: he later noted the scene demonstrates his overall lack of experience, as he is visibly looking for his mark as he enters the scene.


Connections to prior episodes

* Paulie remembers the time Ralphie was obsessed with ''
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'' and hit Georgie with a chain, which happened in the Season 3 episode " University". * Tony repeatedly asks Paulie if he told Johnny Sack about the off-color joke that Ralph told about a mole on Ginny "Sack"'s posterior (in the episode "
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"). Paulie denies this (Paulie actually did tell it to Johnny Sack, in the episode "
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"). * Tony checks into a hotel in Miami using the fake surname “Spears.” This is the same name Tony uses when consulting a new psychiatrist in " Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office...". * Beansie is a
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and has to void in a bag due to the injuries he sustained when Richie Aprile ran over him in the Season 2 episode "
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". * Tony recalls finding a painting of himself as a general at Paulie's house, which occurred in the Season 5 finale " All Due Respect". * When Paulie boards a boat with Tony, this episode uses flashback scenes from the murder of Big Pussy on a boat, taken from the Season 2 finale " Funhouse".


Music

* The song playing on the radio as Tony and Paulie travel through the
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area (according to the station identification for
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heard in this scene) was " Rock On", by David Essex. * The instrumental piece played in the bar during Tony and Paulie's stop in Virginia is an instrumental version of "
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" by Gino Vannelli. *The piano piece playing in the hotel canteen, when Tony tells Paulie off, is the theme for the movie '' Terms of Endearment'', composed by Michael Gore. * The song Junior sings with the other patients is " Take Me Home, Country Roads", a song made famous in 1971 by
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. * The instrumental piece played over the end credits is " Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" by the
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Orchestra.


References


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