Saundra Santiago credited as playing...
Jean Cusamano • Joan O'Connell
- Carmela Soprano: [over the phone] hi, how are you?
- Jeanie Cusamano: listen, I spoke to my sister about the letter of recommendation for Meadow and she's sorry, she just can't do it... I'm sorry
- Carmela Soprano: she can't? Why not?
- Jeanie Cusamano: well because she already wrote a letter for someone else: a wonderful Dominican from the housing projects, with a 5.2 average and a crack addict mother with Cerebral palsy
- Carmela Soprano: so, what does that mean? She can't send two?
- Jeanie Cusamano: did you think about asking one of the priests at the church? A letter from Father Intintola would "probably" mean more I bet? Especially at Georgetown. I gotta go, bye, good luck
- Carmela Soprano: [surprising her in her backyard] Jeanie, hi, you're putting your roses to bed huh?
- Jeanie Cusamano: Carmela, hi
- Carmela Soprano: I haven't seen you in spinning class lately and I went by and couple times and ran your bell couple times but you weren't home either
- Jeanie Cusamano: really?
- Carmela Soprano: [referring to Jeanie's identical twin sister] The other day I'm at the Willow Brook mall and I see you going on the down escalator and I'm yelling "Jeanie, Jeanie," and that's when I realized it was your sister: didn't she go to Georgetown?
- Jeanie Cusamano: [listing her sister's credentials with the university] Georgetown Law, Georgetown Law Review, Regional Secretary of the Georgetown Alumni Association of Short Hill
- Carmela Soprano: Because you know my Meadow applied to Georgetown? And I am hoping and praying to Jesus that she gets in, she keeps talking about Berkley
- Jeanie Cusamano: College already huh? They get big so fast
- Jeanie Cusamano: [after looking at her watch] Oh God, is that the time?
- Carmela Soprano: I need to ask you a favor. I was wondering if you would ask your sister to write Meadow a letter of recommendation? Is that too forward?
- Jeanie Cusamano: Well, she doesn't really know Meadow
- Carmela Soprano: but you do and you can give her Meadow's transcripts, which are excellent by the way: her paper on the melting icecaps made me cry, it was so poignant. It was published in the Daily Caduceus
- Jeanie Cusamano: My sister... she's so busy
- Carmela Soprano: Really? Is there's any way you can find yourself to help me out here?
- Jeanie Cusamano: I'll ask
- Jeanie Cusamano: [after knocking and entering her office] Hi
- Joan: Oh my God, did we have a lunch? I'm rushing out the door to a deposition
- Jeanie Cusamano: I was in the neighborhood
- Joan: Downtown Newark?
- Jeanie Cusamano: [referring to making a mistake] I think I goofed, I don't know how I got into this conversation but Carmela Soprano from next door, trapped me and asked me if I'd ask you to write her daughter a letter of recommendation to Georgetown
- Joan: [surprised] The gangster's wife?
- Jeanie Cusamano: I'm sorry... she just blindsided me in the backyard, what I suppose to say?
- Joan: That I'm busy, which I am, that I don't even know the girl
- Jeanie Cusamano: Come on, you met Meadow, Fourth of July barbeque
- Joan: That's not what I mean: you can't expect me to do this
- Jeanie Cusamano: It's just a letter. Bruce just wrote one to UVM, you do it all the time
- Joan: Bring gangsters onto the Georgetown campus? I don't think so
- Jeanie Cusamano: [irritated] Oh, spare me the elitist bullshit, they're my neighbors
- Joan: Have you lost your mind?
- Jeanie Cusamano: Carmela asked me
- Joan: what're you frightened? What'd you think they're going to do? Put you in cement boots over some college applications?
- Jeanie Cusamano: It's not that: it's a question of manners, what am I supposed to say?
- Joan: That I'm writing a letter of recommendation for someone else, which I am. A wonderful young Dominican boy from the projects with a 5.2 average, I have a reputation to protect
- Jeanie Cusamano: I knew you wouldn't do it
- Joan: You want to be a doormat for the rest of your life? Just deal with it ok?
- Carmela Soprano: [after entering her office] Hi, is this a bad time?
- Joan: [smiles, sarcastically] Always, come on in
- Carmela Soprano: [before handing her the pie] Rigot pie with pineapples. I was in the neighborhood, my mother's foot surgeon is over here
- Joan: Thank you. Listen, I think I know why your here: my sister told me you wanted me to write a letter of recommendation for..."fielder" is it?
- Carmela Soprano: [correcting her on her daughter's name] Meadow
- Joan: Oh, I'm sorry but I just can't do it
- Carmela Soprano: Well, I thought you'd at least want to take a look at her grades. Her SAT scores, and some teacher comments before you made up your mind. She would be a wonderful addition to the Georgetown campus
- Joan: then, I'm sure the Admissions Office will see that
- Carmela Soprano: I'm not sure that's true, the sad fact is it's just not enough these days
- Joan: [while sitting down] I'm sorry, I can't do it
- Carmela Soprano: I don't think you understand... I want you to write that letter
- Joan: [surprised] Excuse me?
- Carmela Soprano: I said I want you to write the letter
- Joan: Are you threatening me?
- Carmela Soprano: [amused] What? "threatening"? I brought you a Rigot pie and her high school transcripts so you can write a letter of recommendation for my little daughter to Georgetown
- Joan: I'm not the Circuit court
- Carmela Soprano: A lawyer: don't make me beg here
- Joan: [sternly] I've already written my last letter of recommendation for this academic year
- Carmela Soprano: Well, how about this? I thought you'd write a letter to Georgetown, tell them you've "discovered" that Georgetown was not that person's first choice and that in fact his using Georgetown as a "backup"? I'm not gonna tell you what to write
