...To Save Us All from Satan's Power

"...To Save Us All from Satan's Power"
The Sopranos episode
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
Guest appearance(s)

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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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Episode recap

Before meeting Paulie on the Asbury Park boardwalk, Tony flashes back to the winter of 1995, when he first discovered Big Pussy was acting strangely. When Tony asks if Paulie feels guilty about killing him, Paulie claims he does not regret it. When Tony brings the topic up again at Satriale's, Silvio begins having nightmares about Big 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; they ultimately pick Bobby for the part. Unlike Big Pussy, Bobby's shyness and bluntness do not go well with his role. After a child swears at Bobby, Tony tells him to be more cheerful.

As Tony is mulling over Big Pussy's betrayal and death, he remembers the time when Big Pussy missed a sitdown to mediate peace between Jackie Aprile, Sr. and Uncle Junior in Boca Raton, Florida. Tony thinks that was the night when the FBI coerced him into cooperating after catching him selling heroin, and later made him wear a wire when he dressed up as Santa at Satriale's.

Meanwhile, Janice announces that she will cook Christmas dinner. When she tells Tony that her wrist is becoming hard to manage, she reminds him about her encounter with the Russian thugs who arrived to take back Svetlana's prosthetic leg. As a favor to Tony, a member of the local Russian mob gives Tony the name and place of employment of Janice's attacker. The following evening, Tony and Furio beat him and throw him through a glass window of a mall display. When Janice sees a TV news report about the attack, she becomes emotional, wakes up her narcoleptic boyfriend Aaron, and mentions that what's missing from their Christian music song they are trying to write is the "brother concept."

At Nuovo Vesuvio, the newly separated Charmaine has started to wear revealing clothing, attracting compliments from several mobsters. As Tony, Paulie and Silvio eat dinner, she jokes to Tony that the people at the next table are FBI. Silvio becomes offended by this, and Artie apologizes. The following day, Charmaine blames Tony for the ruin of their marriage. Tony becomes angry and he, Silvio and Christopher leave. At Silvio's suggestion, the three go to a strip club and drink tequilas. There, Silvio and Tony spot Jackie Aprile, Jr. getting a lap dance from a stripper. Infuriated, Tony drags him into the bathroom and beats him. After confiscating the gun given to him by Ralph, Tony finally knees Jackie in the groin and tells him, "You bottomed out."

On Christmas morning, the Sopranos open their gifts when Jackie arrives with presents from Rosalie. He then gives Meadow an engraved necklace, to Tony's irritation. In the kitchen, Jackie confesses to Tony that he "flunked out" of Rutgers University, but that he wants to enter the men's fashion business and that he still wants to be with Meadow. After Jackie leaves, Tony has to fake a happy face when he finds that Meadow has bought him a Big Mouth Billy Bass, which reminds him of the dream that made him realize Big Pussy's betrayal.

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  1. ↑ "Alik Sakharov -IMDb". IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
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