Do Not Resuscitate (The Sopranos)
| "Do Not Resuscitate" | |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Martin Bruestle |
| Written by |
Robin Green Mitchell Burgess Frank Renzulli |
| Cinematography by | Phil Abraham |
| Production code | 202 |
| Original air date | January 23, 2000 |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
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"Do Not Resuscitate" is the fifteenth episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the second of the show's second season. It was written by Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess and Frank Renzulli, directed by Martin Bruestle and originally aired on January 23, 2000.
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Tony Soprano visits Uncle Junior in jail, upset that he wasn't put on the visitors' list for three weeks. Junior tells Tony to be careful what he says as the prison officials record inmates' conversations. Junior tries in vain to convince Tony that Livia had nothing to do with the shooting. Tony won't talk business but asks to meet with Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri, Junior's now highest-ranking soldier. When a meek Bobby meets Tony at Satriale's, Tony tells him that Junior can still "earn" on a "subsistence level" via his shylock businesses and the pipe fitters' union, but everything else he had now belongs to him, though Junior will still hold the official title of boss for any future indictments. Before leaving, Bobby quotes, "to the victor belongs the spoils." Tony angrily tells Bobby to shove his "quotations book up your fat fuckin' ass" and to get out.
The following day, Junior's lawyer, Harold Melvoin, successfully gets Junior out of jail after convincing the judge that Junior has a recurring medical issue. The judge agrees to release Junior but he must remain under house arrest with a position-monitoring bracelet, and on the condition that he can only leave the house for grocery shopping, family functions, and doctor's appointments. During one such doctors appointment at which Tony is present, Junior tells Tony that the owner of the Green Grove Nursing Home, Freddie Capuano, has been discussing Soprano family business with others, saying that "Tony Soprano likes to fluff his mother's pillows" and also implied that he Junior and Livia were having an affair. Tony makes sure Capuano disappears and shortly thereafter, a New Jersey State Trooper finds Capuano's abandoned, idling Cadillac and his toupée on the ground near the Passaic River.
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