The sopranos
Season 2.Episode 09
From where to eternity.
-Dr Melfi: Do you think he'll go to hell?
-Tony: No. He's not the type that deserves hell.
-Dr Melfi: Who do you think does?
-Tony:The worst people. The twisted and demented psychos who kill people for pleasure.
Cannibals, degenerate molesters, torturers and killers of babies. The Hitlers, the Pol Pots. They're the evil fucks that deserve to die. Not my nephew.
-Dr Melfi: What about you?
-Tony: What? Hell? You been listening to me?
No. For the same reasons. We're soldiers, you know. Soldiers don't go to hell. It's war. Soldiers, they kill other soldiers. We're in a situation...where everybody involved knows the stakes. And if you're gonna accept those stakes...you gotta do certain things.
It's business. We're soldiers. We follow codes. Orders.
-Dr Melfi: So does that justify everything that you do?
-Tony: Excuse me. When America opened the floodgates...and let all us Italians in, what do you think they did it for? Because they were trying to save us from poverty?
It was because they needed us. They needed us to build their cities and subways and to make them richer. The Carnegies and Rockefellers needed worker bees. There we were. But some of us didn't want to lose who we were. We wanted to preserve the important things: Honor and family and loyalty.
Some of us wanted a piece of the action. Now we weren't educated like the Americans...but we had the balls to take what we wanted. And those other fucks,those other, the J.P. Morgans...they were crooks and killers too. But that was the business, right? The American way.
-Tony: No. He's not the type that deserves hell.
-Dr Melfi: Who do you think does?
-Tony:The worst people. The twisted and demented psychos who kill people for pleasure.
Cannibals, degenerate molesters, torturers and killers of babies. The Hitlers, the Pol Pots. They're the evil fucks that deserve to die. Not my nephew.
-Dr Melfi: What about you?
-Tony: What? Hell? You been listening to me?
No. For the same reasons. We're soldiers, you know. Soldiers don't go to hell. It's war. Soldiers, they kill other soldiers. We're in a situation...where everybody involved knows the stakes. And if you're gonna accept those stakes...you gotta do certain things.
It's business. We're soldiers. We follow codes. Orders.
-Dr Melfi: So does that justify everything that you do?
-Tony: Excuse me. When America opened the floodgates...and let all us Italians in, what do you think they did it for? Because they were trying to save us from poverty?
It was because they needed us. They needed us to build their cities and subways and to make them richer. The Carnegies and Rockefellers needed worker bees. There we were. But some of us didn't want to lose who we were. We wanted to preserve the important things: Honor and family and loyalty.
Some of us wanted a piece of the action. Now we weren't educated like the Americans...but we had the balls to take what we wanted. And those other fucks,those other, the J.P. Morgans...they were crooks and killers too. But that was the business, right? The American way.
