Let's start with the important part: Van Alden and Sigrid and the baby have all fled to the Midwest to live as the Meullers. I know you were worried. (Actually, this will supposedly pay off season, as they've settled into the Al Capone-preferred town of Cicero, IL.)
On to business: Jimmy and Richard storm a Klan gathering, delivering to Chalky the men who shot up his joint. In exchange, Jimmy wants a meeting with Nucky. At the same time, Nucky is meeting with a drunk-and-hiding Manny Horvitz, who wants to make a deal with Nucky wherein they eliminate Waxey and Jimmy for each other. Nucky meets with a humbled (though quixotic) Jimmy, and it looks like there's room for an alliance once again.
Margaret (with Father Brennan by her side) is brought in to answer Esther Randolph's questions. Randolph gives her real talk and encourages Margaret to set herself free of Nucky. Back at home, Nucky asks Margaret to marry him, so she won't testify against him, which only seems to strengthen Randolph's warnings to Margaret about Nucky's amorality. But after watching Nucky sweetly teaching Emily to walk in her leg braces, Margaret agrees to marry Nucky, after she makes a full confession to God.
Jimmy goes to Leander and Neary and wants to pull back the Nucky railroading and sacrifice Eli instead. He gets no takers, so the day, Jimmy and Richard storm Neary's office -- interrupting some HBO-mandated doggystyle -- force him to sign a confession, and then blow his head off. Neary's "suicide" puts a giant hole in Randolph's case against Nucky. A mistrial is declared. Nucky and Eli go free. Halloran is sentenced to Fort Leavenworth. Wah-wah.
"Maybe God is giving me another chance," Nucky muses to Margaret, who is buying none of Nucky's good fortune as being mere coincidence. He goes to visit Eli and wants his brother to plead guilty to the Schroeder murder. Two years in prison, tops. Eli, as ever, is totally pathetic about it.
Luciano and Lansky bring Rothstein in on their heroin business, and they're all very excited about the prospects. Nucky calls AR for advice -- he's stuck between killing Manny Horvitz or ... something else. Rothstein tells Nucky to flip a coin; in the air, he'll know what side he wants to come up. So Nucky lures Jimmy out to the war memorial with promises of delivering Manny. In truth, it's an ambush, and Jimmy walks into it willingly. He died in a trench, years ago, see. Nucky shoots James Darmody dead -- his first kill -- and makes it clear he's not looking for forgiveness.
The morning, Nucky completely lies to Margaret about Jimmy re-enlisting in the service. So while Nucky, Bader, and the rest of the cronies are out celebrating at the site of the new highway Nucky's been angling for since last season, Margaret is busy signing the deed for that very land (which Nucky had set up to transfer to her last week) over to the church. That's going to be one holy highway.
Previously: Jimmy Darmody was created in sin. He rebelled. He evolved. He aspired to be the biggest gangster in Atlantic City. For a time, he felt like he was the biggest gangster in Atlantic City. He has many enemies. And they're about to have a plan.
Currently: Jimmy and Richard, with hastily-applied cloths covering their faces, wheel up into the middle of a Klan rally. Well, not so much a rally as a Klan outdoor mill-about. Quickly and casually (with a handheld cam following behind to give the scene a visceral goose), Jimmy strides up to the first white robe he sees and blasts the guy's brains out. Panic sets in, and Jimmy gets right to it: "Names and addresses of the three men who shot up Chalky White's warehouse." Hesitation means Richard fires a shotgun blast into another Klansman's chest. One un-sheeted man rattles off two names quickly, then stalls out. Jimmy's like, "And...?" Snitchy nods in the direction of a blood-spattered robe-wearer to his left. The coward tries to sprint away, but Jimmy is ON IT.
Elsewhere, in the basement of a muggy little synagogue, Manny Horvitz waxes on the subject of criminals and the hierarchies of power. He's drunk and mumbly and rambly, and while he reminisces about life as a small-time hood in Odessa, Nucky, Mickey Doyle and Owen Sleater try their best not to look too visibly bored. Mickey's not hiding it well, for one. (I also love that Mickey has, in the space between episodes, already jumped ship back to Nucky. The little weasel.) Manny says he has to live away from home because he's under threat from Waxey Gordon. Nucky tut-tuts Manny that Waxey is a business partner of his, but Manny in turn is all, "You know Waxey and Jimmy Darmody have a deal together, right?" "You give me Waxey," Manny promises, "I'll give you Darmody, and we'll make business together." Nucky is more than a little repulsed by Manny, and he doesn't think Manny holds as many cards as he thinks he does. Manny catches the whiff of criminal elitism from Nucky and doesn't appreciate it. But Nucky thanks him for his offer and says he'll be in touch. Manny grumbles to Mickey after Nucky leaves. "He would be nothing in Odessa."
Chalky's people are lined up with shotguns in front of the warehouse, ready for anything. The good news is that Jimmy and Richard drive up with the Klansmen in the back of the car, bound and ready for presentation. Jimmy offers Chalky these three murdering crackers, plus $20k for the families of the victims -- $2k more per victim than Chalky was even asking. Also, the Governor's office has dropped Chalky's case. Not bad treatment from Jimmy. Chalky says, "You can tell your dad I'll call off the strike." So...the news of the Commodore's demise hasn't exactly trickled down yet, then? Also, I love how the strike is off because Chalky's personal shit got dealt with. Aren't there minimum wage issues at hand? Not to mention the residuals from online video! Jimmy says in exchange, Chalky can tell Nucky that Jimmy wants to talk. After Jimmy leaves, Chalky welcomes the Klansmen back to the warehouse, after which they are dragged from the car and beaten savagely. Outside, by the car, Richard has some wise advice: "Whatever you do to try to change things, you know he'll never forgive you."
The day, at Nucky's house, Katy and another maid help Emily practice her walking, and it's very sweet. Nucky returns home with Owen, so of course immediately Katy starts acting weird. Of course, Owen greets Lillian and Emily but not Katy, so it's not like she's the only one acting weird. Anyway, where is Margaret? She left, say the maids, though she didn't say where she was going.
In fact, Margaret is at the Post Office, meeting with Esther Randolph. Margaret brought Father Brennan with her, who is immediately all over Randolph about how Margaret has no knowledge whatsoever of the crimes Nucky's been charged with. He even brings up Emily's polio for added sympathy points. Randolph wonders if maybe Margaret can speak for herself, and Margaret does tell Brennan she can do this alone. Brennan: "Well, I suppose I'll just buy some stamps." Nice. Once he's gone, the feminist pas des deux begins. It's all subtext so I'll do the best I can. Margaret: "Tell me right now that it's easy for a woman to get any kind of social position, much less High Inquisitress of America, without making some serious compromises. Extra credit if you can claim to have started off in abject, off-the-boat poverty." Randolph is all open to hearing Margaret's story. She has no doubt it's complicated, though it's not hard to think Randolph's already made up her mind on this one. Still, she's not unsympathetic. She even admits to rather liking Nucky, apart from his crimes. But she WILL compel Margaret to testify. However she paints Margaret -- helpless widow or shameless golddigger -- is entirely up to Margaret. "Does it matter," Margaret asks, indignantly, "that neither of those are true?" Randolph: "It matters that Enoch Thompson goes to jail." Then we get into serious moral territory: Nucky has never been cruel to Margaret, she says, or to her children. But he has been cruel to many, many people, says Randolph. Margaret has never seen that -- but she KNOWS about it anyway. Margaret plays the child card, but Randolph manages to parry even that, saying if she had children of her own, she couldn't bear thinking their comfort was bought with the blood of others. "Because sooner or later," she says, "they'll find out themselves. And that won't be a happy day." Margaret asks what happens if she agrees to testify against Nucky. Randolph assures her she'll never have to see Nucky again. "Set yourself free, Mrs. Schroeder. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel."
Nucky and Fallon are in his office, musing on how ridiculous these charges of "asking someone to commit murder" are. Who ever heard of THAT as a crime? Nucky yells at Eddie for the empty bourbon bottle, while Fallon changes the subject to Eli. Can Nucky make him an offer? Nucky says Eli isn't the real problem. Ah yes. Margaret. Fallon says her testimony is what will sink Nucky, even if she doesn't know anything concrete. She will be the one who turns all the accusations and hearsay and makes it all seem plausible, if not probable. If Margaret testifies, bottom line, it's all over. Nucky thinks it over, as Eddie comes in with a call from Chalky.
Elsewhere, Jimmy smokes alone at home and waits. And waits. Nucky (with Owen Sleater in tow) shows up and just walks right into the house. Jimmy comes downstairs with his gun. Nucky introduces Jimmy to Owen, and Jimmy tells him to wait outside. "It's okay," he says, "I used to do your job." Owen: "You're the reason I'm doing it now." Oooh! Nucky nods and Owen leaves. Nucky then apologizes about Angela, and Jimmy tells him it was this guy Manny Horvitz. Nucky pretends he never heard of Manny before, but if he hears anything, he'll let Jimmy know. Jimmy pours himself a drink, "to the lost." He tells Nucky that the Commodore is dead and further says he should've killed him the moment he suggested betraying Nucky. He talks about wanting to kill his father since he was a kid. Nucky, of course, gets it. Jimmy offers to make up for this all somehow. Nucky, showing just how wounded he's been by Jimmy, just wants an explanation -- why? Jimmy says he was angry, he was hurt, the war -- nothing concrete but a whole lot of potential reasons. He says the shooting never should have happened, though he trails off. "It was Eli," he finally says. He wants to make things right -- "just tell me how to help you."
Margaret is knitting downstairs with the fan on when Nucky arrives. And while it's clearly balls hot in Atlantic City, she's ice cold to him. He gets right to the point -- their shared Catholicism, which they both approach quite differently. She thinks it's simple -- he's lost his faith. He cracks a joke that a benevolent God wouldn't have stuck him with that mug of his, and this gets her to crack the slightest of smiles. He says his relationship with whatever divine being there may or may not be doesn't need rules. "So your God asks nothing of you?" she asks/accuses. It asks that he loves and protects his family, is his answer. Family is Nucky's religion. He promises that Margaret's pain will get better, and they can weather this as a family. Right now, however, he needs her to marry him -- so she won't have to testify. Oh, he WANTS to marry her, but he's being honest here about the legal reasons. It's an interesting angle. He admits he's afraid of dying or spending his life in jail, and while Margaret tends to a whistling kettle, she remarks, "You are always surprising. I'll give you that."
Leander is meeting with Jimmy and Gillian about how they're going to handle the Commodore's death. Like, for example, the fudged death certificate that lists the cause of death as "accident," which Leander is sure to remind them "cost a pretty penny." I like Leander. I wish they gave him stuff to do this season. As for the will, it hasn't been revised since 1914, so the main beneficiary for his entire estate is one LouAnn Pratt. Yes, the maid who was poisoning him to death. Girl, you should have held out a little longer! Gillian and Jimmy are aghast, and after confirming that without a will, the estate would go to Jimmy, with it passing on to Tommy in the case of Jimmy's demise (ahem), Jimmy tears up the will without a second thought. I suppose LouAnn doesn't really deserve the estate after attempted murder, but that still seemed cold. The menfolk -- Al Neary, Paddy Ryan, some dude with a mustache -- arrive, and Gillian instructs Jimmy to "be firm in what you want." Jimmy tells her flat out: "No more advice, Ma!" The cronies are overflowing with condolences about the Commodore's death. Jimmy tries to maintain his position of authority as he says he's rethought their position on Nucky. He says they're going after Eli instead. They will all recant and blame it all on Eli. Neither Neary nor Ryan like this very much -- it ruins their reputations, for one thing, and they're really liking the way things are without Nucky. They look to Leander, who's been relatively pro-Nucky, but he says he would advise Jimmy to "stay the course." Neary and the guys are sympathetic to what Jimmy's been through; they supportively tell him to hold firm. Jimmy sees he's alone on this and ... ready? ... he pouts his lips.
By Joe R
Margaret is knitting downstairs with the fan on when Nucky arrives. And while it's clearly balls hot in Atlantic City, she's ice cold to him. He gets right to the point -- their shared Catholicism, which they both approach quite differently. She thinks it's simple -- he's lost his faith. He cracks a joke that a benevolent God wouldn't have stuck him with that mug of his, and this gets her to crack the slightest of smiles. He says his relationship with whatever divine being there may or may not be doesn't need rules. "So your God asks nothing of you?" she asks/accuses. It asks that he loves and protects his family, is his answer. Family is Nucky's religion. He promises that Margaret's pain will get better, and they can weather this as a family. Right now, however, he needs her to marry him -- so she won't have to testify. Oh, he WANTS to marry her, but he's being honest here about the legal reasons. It's an interesting angle. He admits he's afraid of dying or spending his life in jail, and while Margaret tends to a whistling kettle, she remarks, "You are always surprising. I'll give you that."
Leander is meeting with Jimmy and Gillian about how they're going to handle the Commodore's death. Like, for example, the fudged death certificate that lists the cause of death as "accident," which Leander is sure to remind them "cost a pretty penny." I like Leander. I wish they gave him stuff to do this season. As for the will, it hasn't been revised since 1914, so the main beneficiary for his entire estate is one LouAnn Pratt. Yes, the maid who was poisoning him to death. Girl, you should have held out a little longer! Gillian and Jimmy are aghast, and after confirming that without a will, the estate would go to Jimmy, with it passing on to Tommy in the case of Jimmy's demise (ahem), Jimmy tears up the will without a second thought. I suppose LouAnn doesn't really deserve the estate after attempted murder, but that still seemed cold. The menfolk -- Al Neary, Paddy Ryan, some dude with a mustache -- arrive, and Gillian instructs Jimmy to "be firm in what you want." Jimmy tells her flat out: "No more advice, Ma!" The cronies are overflowing with condolences about the Commodore's death. Jimmy tries to maintain his position of authority as he says he's rethought their position on Nucky. He says they're going after Eli instead. They will all recant and blame it all on Eli. Neither Neary nor Ryan like this very much -- it ruins their reputations, for one thing, and they're really liking the way things are without Nucky. They look to Leander, who's been relatively pro-Nucky, but he says he would advise Jimmy to "stay the course." Neary and the guys are sympathetic to what Jimmy's been through; they supportively tell him to hold firm. Jimmy sees he's alone on this and ... ready? ... he pouts his lips.
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Jimmy has taken young Tommy down to the beach, where they are giving out horse rides. Gillian stands over by the car and smokes. Jimmy tells Tommy a story about when he was a boy and snuck off to the beach where he'd build a lean-to and pretend he was Robinson Crusoe. "With Mima?" Tommy asks. Jimmy looks over to his mother, obviously already concerned at the poisonous influence she might have over him. They really did just shave off all her dimensions this season and turned her into Livia, huh? He tells Tommy that Mima didn't know where he was. Nobody did. "Can I do that?" Tommy asks. Sure can! Jimmy hoists him onto the horse. The black man taking care of the horses comes up with two hats. "Cowboy or soldier?" Soldier, says Tommy, son of the soldier. Yeesh, with the heavy symbolism.
Back at Nucky's, he's in a celebratory (drunk) mood. Margaret is bright but disingenuous with her congratulations to him. He's all, "I know what you're thinking, but I had nothing to do with Neary's suicide." She says she believes him (she obviously doesn't; she's kind of just being a bitch rather than trying to lie about it). The funny thing is that he's actually telling the truth this time. Also, hi, you married him for the express reason not to testify, so... He shows her the newspaper, which says that Congress has approved $10 million in road appropriations for New Jersey, which means that huge plot of land they own will be worth a fortune. This is the land he deeded over to her last week. He'll just need her to sign it back over to him chance she gets. She says of course she will. "Who knows?" he says. "Maybe you're right. Maybe God is giving me another chance." Margaret looks at him, pleased that he might be turning over a new leaf? Or just bemused at his self-delusion?
Eli's house, with his billion kids running all around. Nucky rolls up -- aw, it's a family reunion! Eli's been drinking, which earns him a disapproving tut-tut from Nucky. "Hot enough for ya?" Eli asks. "Yes," Nucky replies. "And how 'bout those Phillies? And my brother tried to have me killed." Heh. Eli turns to look at him. "Et tu, Eli?" Eli, the fucking moron, obviously doesn't get the reference. Even when Nucky tells him it's Shakespeare, Eli's like, "He had a character named Eli?" He then bald-faced lies to Nucky that not only did he have nothing to do with the assassination attempt, he tried to stop it. All with the trademark Eli poor-me pout, like he can't believe he's being accused of such a thing, by his own brother. "I came to you, hat in hand," he whines. "And you pissed on me!" Can somebody pleeeeeease kill him so we don't have to go through another season of this? Nucky instructs him that he is to plead guilty to everything, to end this once and for all. He'll do two years at the most, be out in half that time (for Season 3 no doubt). It's the best he can get, and he could do a lot worse. Eli sighs. Back under Nucky's boot and damned lucky to be there.
Rothstein is meeting with Lucky and Lansky and it looks like they've finally come to him with the heroin proposition. Considering AR almost certainly knew that they had been holding out on him -- he seems to know everything -- it's pretty big of him to be so welcoming. Of course, the dollar signs in his eyes are probably brightening up his disposition some. He's already making plans to start importing it themselves. Lucky: "Just so you know, we come to you with this first." Lies. Lansky: "Out of respect." Utter horseshit. From Rothstein's conspicuous non-reaction, I'd say he knows it. Phone call -- it's Nucky. He tells AR of his current dilemma. Manny Horvitz. Would it be cool if Nucky killed him? Given the Waxey Gordon connection? AR raises his eyebrows to Lucky and Lansky, who could give a shit if Manny lives or dies. "I would have no opinion on the matter," he assures Nucky. Nucky tells him he's got a decision to make. "Flip a coin." Rothstein says. "When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for."
Elsewhere, the fleeing Van Alden, along with Sigrid and the baby, are moving into a boarding house in the Midwest. Cicero, Illinois, in fact. Famous for some criminal named Capone....
Commodore's house. Gillian plays with Tommy in one room, Jimmy gets drunk with Richard in the other room. (BTW, I finally realized why I always have trouble mixing up Jimmy and Tommy's name. Hedwig and the Angry Inch was on TV the other day, and it made me realize Michael Pitt played Tommy Gnosis in that one. Anyway.) Jimmy is regaling Richard with a war story about singing and revelry. Richard's war stories are all about his own personal loneliness and how the unit was the only place he felt he was meant to be. "Nobody was meant to be there," Jimmy assures him. Richard's like, "But we were there. We still are." Jimmy says it's time to come home. "Promise me that you'll try." Jimmy gets a call from Nucky -- "I've located your friend, Mr. Horvitz." He wants to meet at the war memorial in one hour. Jimmy says he'll be there. He tells Richard, and says this is one he has to handle alone. Gillian hears Jimmy head out, and then sees Tommy is wearing his father's dog tags; she's troubled by this. She tells him, "You're gonna be a big man in this city one day. Just like your father." Shudder.
It's pouring rain at the war memorial. Nucky arrives with Sleater and a handcuffed Manny. Jimmy's already there, in his gangster suit and hat. "So now you will have your revenge, Boychik," Manny says. Then, we see a figure emerge behind Jimmy. It's Eli, shotgun drawn. Jimmy's not exactly surprised. I mean, he's a little surprised it's Eli, I guess. Maybe he expected the guy to have more self-respect? Manny reveals his arms are bound by nothing but loose rope. Owen approaches Jimmy to remove his weapons. Eli makes sure he grabs the Fuck Knife from his boot, but he's not armed. "This is the only way we could've ended," he says. Nucky angrily tells him this was his choice. "I died in the trench," Jimmy assures him. "Thought you knew that." Jimmy wonders who's going to do the killing? Manny, Eli, or Owen? Nucky says he's going to do this one himself. A first. He draws his gun and stands frozen. Jimmy makes no move to escape. "My first time I vomited after," he says. Nucky starts yelling at Jimmy for having everything and being so fucking stupid about it, while Jimmy steadily advises Nucky to stay calm and get himself through the kill. "All you gotta worry about is when you run out of booze, and out of company, and the only person left to judge you is your --" BANG! Nucky shoots him in the face before he can finish. "You don't know me, James." Nucky says. "You never did. I am not. Seeking. Forgiveness." BANG. The killshot. No, I guess he's not.
By Joe R
Eli's house, with his billion kids running all around. Nucky rolls up -- aw, it's a family reunion! Eli's been drinking, which earns him a disapproving tut-tut from Nucky. "Hot enough for ya?" Eli asks. "Yes," Nucky replies. "And how 'bout those Phillies? And my brother tried to have me killed." Heh. Eli turns to look at him. "Et tu, Eli?" Eli, the fucking moron, obviously doesn't get the reference. Even when Nucky tells him it's Shakespeare, Eli's like, "He had a character named Eli?" He then bald-faced lies to Nucky that not only did he have nothing to do with the assassination attempt, he tried to stop it. All with the trademark Eli poor-me pout, like he can't believe he's being accused of such a thing, by his own brother. "I came to you, hat in hand," he whines. "And you pissed on me!" Can somebody pleeeeeease kill him so we don't have to go through another season of this? Nucky instructs him that he is to plead guilty to everything, to end this once and for all. He'll do two years at the most, be out in half that time (for Season 3 no doubt). It's the best he can get, and he could do a lot worse. Eli sighs. Back under Nucky's boot and damned lucky to be there.
Rothstein is meeting with Lucky and Lansky and it looks like they've finally come to him with the heroin proposition. Considering AR almost certainly knew that they had been holding out on him -- he seems to know everything -- it's pretty big of him to be so welcoming. Of course, the dollar signs in his eyes are probably brightening up his disposition some. He's already making plans to start importing it themselves. Lucky: "Just so you know, we come to you with this first." Lies. Lansky: "Out of respect." Utter horseshit. From Rothstein's conspicuous non-reaction, I'd say he knows it. Phone call -- it's Nucky. He tells AR of his current dilemma. Manny Horvitz. Would it be cool if Nucky killed him? Given the Waxey Gordon connection? AR raises his eyebrows to Lucky and Lansky, who could give a shit if Manny lives or dies. "I would have no opinion on the matter," he assures Nucky. Nucky tells him he's got a decision to make. "Flip a coin." Rothstein says. "When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for."
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By Joe R
Elsewhere, the fleeing Van Alden, along with Sigrid and the baby, are moving into a boarding house in the Midwest. Cicero, Illinois, in fact. Famous for some criminal named Capone....
Commodore's house. Gillian plays with Tommy in one room, Jimmy gets drunk with Richard in the other room. (BTW, I finally realized why I always have trouble mixing up Jimmy and Tommy's name. Hedwig and the Angry Inch was on TV the other day, and it made me realize Michael Pitt played Tommy Gnosis in that one. Anyway.) Jimmy is regaling Richard with a war story about singing and revelry. Richard's war stories are all about his own personal loneliness and how the unit was the only place he felt he was meant to be. "Nobody was meant to be there," Jimmy assures him. Richard's like, "But we were there. We still are." Jimmy says it's time to come home. "Promise me that you'll try." Jimmy gets a call from Nucky -- "I've located your friend, Mr. Horvitz." He wants to meet at the war memorial in one hour. Jimmy says he'll be there. He tells Richard, and says this is one he has to handle alone. Gillian hears Jimmy head out, and then sees Tommy is wearing his father's dog tags; she's troubled by this. She tells him, "You're gonna be a big man in this city one day. Just like your father." Shudder.
It's pouring rain at the war memorial. Nucky arrives with Sleater and a handcuffed Manny. Jimmy's already there, in his gangster suit and hat. "So now you will have your revenge, Boychik," Manny says. Then, we see a figure emerge behind Jimmy. It's Eli, shotgun drawn. Jimmy's not exactly surprised. I mean, he's a little surprised it's Eli, I guess. Maybe he expected the guy to have more self-respect? Manny reveals his arms are bound by nothing but loose rope. Owen approaches Jimmy to remove his weapons. Eli makes sure he grabs the Fuck Knife from his boot, but he's not armed. "This is the only way we could've ended," he says. Nucky angrily tells him this was his choice. "I died in the trench," Jimmy assures him. "Thought you knew that." Jimmy wonders who's going to do the killing? Manny, Eli, or Owen? Nucky says he's going to do this one himself. A first. He draws his gun and stands frozen. Jimmy makes no move to escape. "My first time I vomited after," he says. Nucky starts yelling at Jimmy for having everything and being so fucking stupid about it, while Jimmy steadily advises Nucky to stay calm and get himself through the kill. "All you gotta worry about is when you run out of booze, and out of company, and the only person left to judge you is your --" BANG! Nucky shoots him in the face before he can finish. "You don't know me, James." Nucky says. "You never did. I am not. Seeking. Forgiveness." BANG. The killshot. No, I guess he's not.
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On Jimmy's dead face, we flash back to that trench where he died the first time, hardened and dirt-covered and readying himself to make another charge into hell's open mouth.
The day, Margaret is quite cheerful while Katy sulks around with a pitcher of orange juice. Nucky greets her and says he has an early meeting. She asks where he was so late last night, and in the rain besides. "Just out," he stonewalls. So we're back to that. And not just the stonewalling. He says he ran into Jimmy, they cleared the air, and in fact, Jimmy told him he was reenlisting in the army. And in FACT, he's already left. Margaret at once realizes what happened and how dumb Nucky must think she is to sell her this line. But she stays silent.
Cut to Margaret at Nucky's desk, where she finds the deed to the land Nucky signed over to her. At the same time, we see Nucky has driven out to this same plot of New Jersey field to meet and toast with Bader and his other cronies. Nucky thinks he'll name it the Harding highway. Margaret, at home, ponders the deed -- and ponders quite a few other things, I would imagine -- and ultimately signs it over. To the church! While Nucky counts the millions he's going to be raking in, Margaret calls Katy and tells her to deliver the deed to Father Brennan. Should be a fun few days at home, I'd say. But that's for Season 3.
Joe R is comforted knowing Jimmy's pouting for the angels somewhere. He can be reached for lavish praise and nothing but at joseph.reid21@gmail.com, and you can listen to him yammer on to his heart's content on the Extra Hot Great podcast.
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