Vinnie Terranova and Father Peter Terranova in “Pilot”

[about his undercover work] Look, if I told Mom, she'd tell Uncle Pete and Aunt Celeste; they'd let it slip to Norwood, he'd tell that dingbat wife of his, and she'd tell half the Metropolitan Life Building!

She got sacked. She's home eating bon-bons and doing crosswords and hacking poor Norwood to pieces.

[shakes his head] Still, Mom couldn't keep it to herself. I shamed her, she'd have to tell somebody, and then you count to ten I'd be the captain of a fifty-gallon oil drum at the bottom of the river.

You could tell her you're working for the government. What would it hurt?

Pete, I wasn't even supposed to tell you, but I figured a guy could tell his priest anything!