The Fleshy Part of the Thigh
| "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" | |
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| The Sopranos episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Alan Taylor |
| Written by |
Diane Frolov Andrew Schneider |
| Cinematography by | Alik Sakharov |
| Production code | 604 |
| Original air date | April 2, 2006 |
| Running time | 57 minutes |
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"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" is the sixty-ninth episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos and the fourth of the show's sixth season. The episode was written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, directed by Alan Taylor and originally aired on April 2, 2006.
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Tony Soprano's condition is improving and he is awaiting surgery to close the opening in his abdomen while he numbs the pain with morphine. He tells a nurse he now sees life in a different way. An Evangelical Christian minister, Pastor Bob Brewster, and Aaron Arkaway later visit Tony and Carmela for a chat and the pastor invites them to pray for a good outcome of his operation.
After the surgery, with his condition now sufficiently stable, Tony is disgusted when he learns the insurance company representative wants to send Tony home as soon as possible. She tells him to be happy since if he had had no insurance card on him on the night he was shot, he would have been placed in an inferior health care facility. Tony spends the last remaining days at the hospital interacting with two patients on his floor, John Schwinn, a former Bell Labs scientist undergoing tests to investigate his enlarged sinuses, and Da Lux, a rapper who was shot while leaving a club. Da Lux expresses admiration for Tony, referring to him as an "Original G" (meaning "gangster"), though Tony is dismissive of it. Da Lux invites him to watch a boxing fight at his hospital room on satellite TV. While watching the prize fight, Paulie moans about how alone everyone is, Schwinn discusses the interconnectivity of all life, telling them how no event or entity can be understood independent from the rest of the world (referencing the work of Erwin Schrödinger, Quantum entanglement), and Da Lux agrees with Schwinn: "everything is everything, I'm down with that." Schwinn has ideas that are at odds with the beliefs of Pastor Bob, who again visits Tony later and tries to encourage him to find his spirituality. The next time, Tony confides to Schwinn he is starting to believe they are all part of something bigger, but Schwinn tells him the doctors found out that he has laryngeal cancer and Tony offers his condolences.
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