By Joe R
Word of Angela Darmody's Sapphic demise trickles out into Atlantic City, but Jimmy has yet to return home. In his absence, we get flashbacks to his days at Princeton, where his Michael Pitt Hair is able to flop around freely, and he's sneaking off for secret trysts with a weirdly dressed Angela. Enter Gillian, who comes to campus for the weekend, flirts with -- and later gets groped by -- Jimmy's professor, leading to a fight, and finally, when Jimmy drunkenly puts her to bed, they carry out the incestuous act we all really hoped we wouldn't end up seeing. The morning, Jimmy signs up for the army to get away.
Back in the present, Gillian (with Richard's assistance) is trying to hold down the fort, and keep the rest of Atlantic City from believing that Jimmy caught his wife in bed with a lady and killed them both. That's what Lucky, Lansky, and Capone, think, until Mickey sets them straight. Mickey doesn't have the best week, as he gets bullied by the aforementioned three criminals, and then when he tries to make another deal with Van Alden, to blow them in for a percentage of the money the Feds would confiscate, Van Alden turns him down flat.
Van Alden is ALSO having a terrible week. He's become a key part of Esther Randolph's case against Nucky for the murder of Hans Schroeder. But after Nucky's black servant pipes up with an anecdote about this wild-eyed IRS agent drowning his partner in the river year, Nucky's attorney takes the accusation to Randolph, and when the Feds try to arrest him, Van Alden escapes and is now on the run.
Margaret continues to tie herself in knots of guilt and Catholicism over poor Emily's condition. She drifts further from Nucky, and in a confrontation near the end of the episode, she reveals that her desire to clear her conscience is so intense, she might even testify against Nucky.
Jimmy finally returns to A.C., though he's still a mess. When he gets fed up with Gillian's blithe plan-making for Angela's funeral, he begins to choke her out. From behind him, The Commodore attacks, leading to a struggle during which Jimmy sticks his knife into his father's gut. At Gillian's twisted urging, Jimmy finishes him off. And maybe finishes himself off in the process.