Tony and Silvio in the back room of the Bing. Tony eats a plate of eggs; Silvio paces and mutters angrily, "Maldonado and his brother'll handle it. Man owes me a solid." "No. No hired help," Tony says. "This is personal." Silvio says sarcastically that he's glad to hear Tony say that, and grumbles that the situation has turned into "a real After-School Special." Heh. Artie swaggers in, glares at Silvio, and asks Tony, "Are you outta your fuckin' mind?" and bitches Tony out for the dog-napping thing. Silvio tells him to shut up, adding that Artie's "five fuckin' time zones behind [his] own ass." Tee hee! Paulie's still my favorite, but Silvio has grown on me. I think it's because he looks so much like Jerry Orbach with the hair and everything. Anyway, Artie ignores Silvio and asks if Tony hears him, because he's serious. "You're serious?" Silvio snarks. "You wanna hear serious? You wanna know what your wonderful fuckin' coach did?" Artie puts his hands on his hips and glares at Silvio. Silvio tells him about Hauser and Ally, "and who knows who else he fucked." Artie smiles in disbelief, "What're you talkin' about -- fucked?" He makes a fist to illustrate the word "fucked." Tony looks at Artie levelly. "That's crazy," Artie scoffs. Tony keeps looking at him. "That's why she slit her wrists, you stunad' [jackass]," Silvio snaps, and he bitches about his daughter having to think "about that filth," but Artie still doesn't believe it: "No." Silvio spells it out for him: "That self-righteous prick put his dick in my little girl's soccer teammate! She's in eleventh grade, for chrissake!" Thank you for that, Dr. Ruth. Artie groans that Hauser drove Chiara home from the supermarket one night when it started raining. Silvio mutters, "Fucking degenerate son of a bitch." Artie yells that Hauser "deserves to die [for] betraying children," and Tony grits out that Hauser "ain't gonna be doin' that shit no more. I guarantee you that." Artie stares at Tony for a moment, then looks away and sits down heavily. The three men fall silent.













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