Gambit number two is stealing Chalky’s men. Maneuver one is getting in on the ground floor with the heroin trade via a deal with Arnold Rothstein ( Michael Stuhlbarg).

Narcisse, a distinguished and liberated Negro who calls all blacks Libyans, is making his moves. More long term schemes are hatched in Chalky White’s Onyx cabaret club. He’s been trying to bury his past (literally, we’re shown him a gun in a grave), but he’s had trouble reconciling it, so our guess is he’s headed back to Atlantic City. With his sister widowed and pregnant, it would seem Richard’s best course of action would be to stick around and help out, but of course he decided to leave for parts unknown and it’s unclear of we’ve seen the last of Emma or not. That unpaid debt almost costs Harrow his life, but sis and a shotgun ensure the man ( Carl Billings) trying to squeeze the disfigured war vet for not completing his assassination job won’t ever be muttering a peep again, let alone complaining. He journeyed home to Wisconsin to kill a man, let him go and then used it as an excuse to reunite with his sister Emma ( Katherine Waterston). The destination for Richard Harrow ( Jack Huston) is much more oblique this season.

A brash run-in with Mickey Doyle ( Paul Sparks), gets William slapped around a bit, but the bootlegger admires his moxie so he lets him off with a case of booze-as long as this is kept secret from pop Eli. In this episode it’s to impress the girls. There’s barely anything subtle about the narrative arc for William ( Ben Rosenfield), Eli Thompson’s teenage college attending son, who desperately wants in on the booze trade. But Nucky may soon be in knee deep as his partners have turned on each other and one of them now has a machete implanted in their forehead. Nucky being too smart for all this gums up the works, but having a soft spot for a local bartender Sally Wheet ( Patricia Arquette), he decides, somewhat inexplicably minus the minor affections for the girl, to join forces with the duo selling junky swamp land. Evidently, Nucky’s friend is in Dutch with another business partner, a ruthless hayseed, and so the ruse was: getting Nucky to commit and all past loans and transgressions are forgotten. On the advice of a friend and business associate, Nucky travels to the Sunshine State for some would-be business opportunities-opportunities that the savvy minded Atlantic City bootlegging kingpin can smell as bunk a mile away. DGA Member: Other Guilds ‘Can Absolutely’ Benefit from Directors’ Gainsįlorida in particular is a long tail game that was largely inert and in service of plans that will likely go awry later on.

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