...To Save Us All From Satan's Power
| "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" | |
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| The Sopranos episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Jack Bender |
| Written by |
Robin Green Mitchell Burgess |
| Cinematography by | Alik Sakharov |
| Production code | 310 |
| Original air date | April 29, 2001 |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
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"...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" is the thirty-sixth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and is the tenth of the show's third season. It was written by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Jack Bender and originally aired on April 29, 2001.
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Before meeting Paulie Walnuts on the boardwalk at Asbury Park, Tony flashes back to the winter holidays of 1995 when he first discovered Pussy was acting strangely. When Tony asks if Paulie feels guilty about murdering him on the boat, Paulie claims he does not regret it for a second and would do it again. When Tony brings the topic up again at the pork store, Silvio Dante begins having nightmares regarding Pussy. Further reminiscence is prompted when Silvio and Paulie have to find a replacement for their former friend to play Santa Claus at the Satriale's Christmas party, a tradition set up by Tony's father when he took over Satriale's to entertain and give back to the kids of the neighborhood. The mobsters at the pork store first try to get Tony to play Santa on account of his girth, but, when he refuses, they pick Bobby "Bacala" for the part. Unlike Big Pussy, who back in his day could play Santa Claus at the Christmas party to everyone's liking, Bobby's shyness and bluntness do not go well with his role. After a child swears at Bobby, Tony tells Bobby to be more cheerful.
When Tony is mulling over Pussy's betrayal and death, he remembers the time when Pussy missed a sitdown to mediate peace between Jackie Aprile and Junior Soprano he himself had previously set up in Boca Raton. Tony thinks it was the night when the FBI coerced him into cooperation after catching him selling heroin and later, at Christmas, made him wear a wire when he dressed up as Santa at Satriale's (and refused to let anybody touch his costume).
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