6x20 The Blue Comet - The Sopranos Episode Guide

The Sopranos

- Episode 06x20

Episode: 06x20
Title: The Blue Comet
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: S620
First Aired: Jun. 03, 2007

Season 6 » Episode #20 - The Blue Comet

Summary: The disloyalty surrounding Tony reaches a breaking point within his crew. A mistaken identity during a hit has deadly consequences. A.J. continues to battle his depression.

Who appeared in this episode?

Junior Soprano	played by Dominic Chianese
A.J. Soprano	played by Robert Iler
Janice Soprano Baccalieri	played by Aida Turturro
Patsy Parisi	played by Dan Grimaldi
Charmaine Bucco	played by Kathrine Narducci
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg	played by Peter Bogdanovich
Corky Caporale	played by Edoardo Ballerini
Agent Dwight Harris	played by Matt Servitto
Eric Mangini	played by Eric Mangini

Season 6 / Episode 20: - The Blue Comet

Dr. Jennifer Melfi: That Departures magazine out there. Did you give any thought at all to someone else who might wanna read before you tore out the entire page?
Tony Soprano: What?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: It's not the first time you've defaced my reading materials.
Tony Soprano: You saw that, huh? People tear shit outta your magazines all the time, they're a mess. I try to read 'em.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I don't think I can help you.
Tony Soprano: Well, change 'em. Bring in some new shit.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I mean therapeutically.
Tony Soprano: What are you talkin' about? I've only missed three appointments since we had that heart-to-heart.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: The new big thing these days is called psychodynamic therapy combined with Anafranil.
Tony Soprano: Who?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: A medication. There's a doctor in Bloomfield you could see.
Tony Soprano: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, OK? Now what the fuck is this? You're, uh, firin' me 'cause I defaced your Departures magazine.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I'm giving you my considered medical opinion.
Tony Soprano: OK, I should've asked you for the steak recipe. And missin' sessions, unfortunately, is part of my condition.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What do you know about your condition? You miss appointments because you don't give a shit. About commitments, about what I do, about the body of work that's gone into building up this science!... Go ahead, tell me again I sound like your wife.
Tony Soprano: Well, if the shoe fits. [Dr. Melfi stands up] We're making progress! It's been seven years!
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Do you want some names?
Tony Soprano: [stands up] OK, listen, I'm gonna tell you somethin' and you're not gonna like it. But we can say anything in here, right?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Go ahead!
Tony Soprano: I'm chalkin' this all up to female menopausal situations.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You're not my gynecologist.
Tony Soprano: Well, you don't need a gynecologist to know which way the wind blows. [Dr. Melfi opens the door] So, wait a minute. You tellin' me after all this time, after everything we've shared in here, you're cuttin' me loose just as my son got outta the hospital for tryin' to kill himself?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Since you are in crisis, I don't wanna waste your time.
Tony Soprano: You know, I gotta be fuckin' honest. As a doctor, I think what you're doin' is immoral.

Season 6 / Episode 20: - The Blue Comet

Phil Leotardo: Historically, Carmine always said the Sopranos are nothing more than a glorified crew. Plain and simple. We decapitate and we do business with whatever's left. [to Albie] What?
Albie Cianflone: Nothin'. I agree in spirit but I gotta counsel.
Phil Leotardo: This thing shoulda been done during John's era.
Butch DeConcini: They got redundant upper management, bleeds off half the kick. We take 'em out, absorb the whole fuckin' thing.
Albie Cianflone: Take out an entire fuckin' family?
Phil Leotardo: Let me tell ya a couple of three things: Forget Coco, forget Fat Dom who goes over to Jersey and never comes back, forget my brother Billy.
Albie Cianflone: Phil, Phil, that's not what I'm sayin' at all.
Phil Leotardo: Anthony Soprano has no respect for this thing. He's never been in the can, not really. Here's a guy who stepped over his own uncle to grab the big seat, his father's brother.
Albie Cianflone: Please, huh?
Phil Leotardo: I'm embarrassed. I let him come to the hospital last Christmas, and I took his fat, fuckin' hand in friendship.
Albie Cianflone: Philly, ya had a heart attack.
Phil Leotardo: Listen to me. They make anybody and everybody over there. And the way that they do it, it's all fucked up. Guys don't get their finger pricked. There's no sword and gun on the table...
Albie Cianflone: Phil...
Phil Leotardo: No, Alb, either it has meaning or no meaning. And the Vito thing, the man harbors a faggot.
Albie Cianflone: It's true.
Phil Leotardo: Five fuckin' Families and we got this other pygmy thing over in Jersey... There's no scraps in my scrapbook... Make it happen.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: In the mental hospital, AJ is seen playing an Xbox 360 without a hard drive, and the audio indicates that he is playing the game Halo (or possibly Halo 2). These are original Xbox games, and require the hard drive to play on the Xbox 360.
CONT: When Tony and Carmela are at the restaurant, the wine glass and desert changes positions several times without either one of them drinking or eating. In addition, the desert also changes colors from bright green and white to brown.
FACT: As in the episode prior to this one, psychotherapists use the non-clinical term "sociopath" instead of the correct term, "psychopath".

TRIVIA

The study Dr. Melfi is shown reading is "The Criminal Personality" by Drs. Samuel Yochelson and Stanton Samenow.
SPOILER: In the safehouse, a cardboard cut-out of Silvio can be seen in the background. The writers wanted Silvio to have a presence in the scene even though he was in the hospital. They made the cut-out appear to be a Bada Bing promotional item being stored at the safehouse.
The magazine that Tony defaces in Dr Melfi's waiting room is “Departures”, a travel magazine sent free to American Express Platinum members.
Susan Aston, who plays the hospital employee, is James Gandolfini's dialect coach for the show.