The Sopranos (TV Series)

The Knight in White Satin Armor (2000)

Louis Lombardi: Skip Lipari

Quotes 

• ["Big Pussy" calls FBI Skip Lipari] 

  Skip Lipari : Lipari.

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : This is Fat Man.

  Skip Lipari : Who?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : You know...

  Skip Lipari : Sal?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : I just heard about they're gonna jack a load of these "Pokieman" cards. Moltisanti and another individual.

• Frank Cubitoso : [after Skip knocks on the door to his office]  Come on in

  Skip Lipari : happy birthday chief

  Frank Cubitoso : [when Skip sees the balloons, meat platter and other gifts on the table]  thanks, from Tony Soprano, never misses an occasion: Christmas, Columbus Day, have something to eat before I send it down to the Saint Ambrose shelter

  Skip Lipari : [referring to his undercover informant Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero]  my CW on that just gave me a bottle of Johnnie Walker

  Frank Cubitoso : CW-16?

  Skip Lipari : Bonpensiero? Yeah, fuckin guy thinks I'm his "friend" now

  Frank Cubitoso : I know we're not allowed to accept gifts and I know poor people are gonna get this but I can't resist the log bread

  Skip Lipari : his turned some corner. One minute his talking about how much he loves Tony Soprano and the next breath, his a "Junior G-man." His talking about RICO predicates and probable cause, all of a sudden, we're the good guys. It's the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I've seen since Patty Hearst

  Frank Cubitoso : [nods]  that was sad

  Skip Lipari : I'll tell you though, I'm getting worried about Sal with these fantasies of law enforcement

  Frank Cubitoso : these things can work two ways. You can find yourself getting too close

• Skip Lipari : [meeting privately, after Pussy hands him a gift]  What's this?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Open it

  Skip Lipari : [referring to Johnnie Walker liquor]  No, I can see it's JW Gold but we can't accept gifts. I'll pass it along to the guys at the firemen home

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : See? That right there, you guys have a policy that your fuckin stuck to, you don't get distracted. Look at what happened with those Egyptians, those mother-less World Trade Center fucks

  Skip Lipari : [confused]  What the fuck is all this?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : I owe you, the rest of my life. I'll never forget, you "looked the other way" on that Bevilaqua "beef"

  Skip Lipari : [surprised]  what? The Bureau would never turn its head on a murder charge

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Alright, what else can you say at this point right?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [changing the subject when Skip doesn't respond]  What'd you know about Scottsdale?

  Skip Lipari : Arizona?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Yeah, I was thinking about picking there to live when this "assignment" is over

  Skip Lipari : [confused]  Assignment?

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : You know, when I'm in Witness Protection: they got more than three hundred days of sunshine, golf, Giants' spring training. Naturally, I'm talking about after I do my two years at Lewisburg. I've been thinking about taking some courses while I'm in the can, psychology, criminology, maybe going around giving lectures at police departments on OC

  Skip Lipari : [nods]  That's an idea

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [after taking it out of his suit jacket pocket and hands it to him]  An airline ticket from the Scatino bust out. Tony made the guy order "blocks" of these through his sporting goods store

  Skip Lipari : I'll put it on file

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : You could use it as probable cause for a warrant, couldn't you? Evidence of extortion and intent to defraud, those are RICO predicates, right?

  Skip Lipari : First, you have to "tie" the ticket to Tony, and his too smart to use any of them himself: He probably moved them by now

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [disappointed]  Oh

  Skip Lipari : [referring to Janice]  However, this engagement party for his sister, I'm gonna wanna wire you up, I know your "sensitive"

  Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Oh, fuck that, what the fuck was I? His errand boy? Running all over looking for his kid's science teacher's car, what the fuck is that? Any faith I had went out the window that very day